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14 09, 2017

Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

By |2019-11-20T05:41:34-08:00September 14th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

A Lydian gold coin King Gyges About 687 BC, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, King Gyges started the new country of Lydia (LID-ee-ah), in modern Turkey where the Hittites had ruled before the [...]

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