Major conflict555 BCE – 540 BCE · 15 years

Cyrus II's Conquest of Lydia

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Lydia · Anatolia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Cyrus II's conquest of Lydia and its vast wealth, establishing Persian control of Anatolia.

Belligerents2

Persian Empire
Lydia

ON THE MAPAchaemenid Persian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Pteria547 BCE
Battle of Thymbria546 BCE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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