Situated in what is modern-contemporary Turkey, a boundaries of Lydia varied through a centuries. It was 1st bounded by Mysia, Caria, Phrygia and Ionia. Afterwards, a military power of Alyattes and Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlled whole Asia Minor west of the Flow of any stream Halys, except Lycia. Lydia nevermore shrank back into its original dimensions. When a Persian conquest a Maeander was regarded as its southern boundary, & under Rome, Lydia comprised a united states between Mysia & Caria on a 1 side & Phrygia & the Aegean on the other.

A title of Croesus of Lydia became synonymous by having wealth. Lydia was one of a number 1 countries to mint coins (circa 650 BC), and Sardis was celebrated as a beautiful city. Croesus was beaten by Cyrus in 548 BC, and the kingdom became a province of the Persian Empire.

Homer speaks exclusively of Maeonians (Iliad two. 865, V. 43, Xi. 431), & their city Hyde a place of the Lydian capital Sardis is taken by Hyde (Deuce. xx. 385), unless this was a title of the territorial dominion where Sardis stood (look at Straho long dozen. p. 626).

While Herodotus (i personally. Seven), tells that a "Meiones" (known as Maeones by more writers) were known as Lydians fallowing Lydus, the boy of Attis, in the mythical epoch which preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty, i can be suspire to identify a kernel of social history in the strictly conventional pretence of such an eponym descended from the god. Straightforward deconstructionism reveals the social upheaval, possibly in the early 1st millennium BC (perhaps possibly when a age of Homer) where a cult of Attis, a consort of Cybele, the Outstanding Goddess of Anatolia, was introduced among the Maeones by the freshly dynasty.

Occasionally Maeones however existed inside historical days inhabiting a highland interior along a River Hermus, where the town known as Maeonia existed, based on data from Pliny the Elder (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles.