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	Herodotus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first six books deal broadly with the growth of the Persian Empire.
		The tale begins with an account of the first 'western' monarch to enter into conflict with a 'eastern' people -- Croesus of Lydia attacked the Greek city-states of Ionia, and then (heedlessly misinterpreting a cryptic oracle), also attacked the Persians.
		Croesus was defeated by Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, and Lydia became a Persian province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herodotus (1598 words)

	Lydia, ancient country, Asia
		The tyrant Gyges was the founder of the Mermnadae dynasty, which lasted from c.700 B.C. to 550 B.C. The little kingdom grew to an empire in the chaos that had been left after the fall of the Neo-Hittite kingdom.
		Lydia was proverbially golden with wealth, and the capital,
		B.C. Lydia had close ties with the Greek cities of Asia, which were for a time within the Lydian empire.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0830714 (178 words)

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