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When the Persians conquered Lydia in the mid-sixth century B.C., they had to incorporate this large and wealthy province into the empire so that it might function as an integral part of the larger whole. Such a transition affected culture as well as commerce, people as well as p…

The region of modern western Turkey known as Lydia during the Lydian period, c. 1185-546 BCE, was the realm of an indigenous and independent people ruled by famously wealthy kings at Sardis. Lydia continued to be governed from Sardis in the following period of Persian hegemony, …