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Name: Conquests of Croesus

Type: Event

Start: 559 BC

End: 555 BC

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Conquests by the Lydian king Croesus.

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  • January 559 BC: Conquered by the Kingdom of Lydia. By the start of the reign of Lydian King Croesus (560 BCE), he and his father Alyattes I had conquered (or de facto controlled) most of the Greek Poleis of Asia minor.
  • January 555 BC: The region of Carla came under the control of the Lydian king Alyattes.
  • January 559 BC: Mysia was subject to Croesus, king of Lydia, who reigned from 560 to 546 BC.

  • Selected Sources


  • Leloux, K. (2018): La Lydie d'Alyatte et Crésus: Un royaume à la croisée des cités grecques et des monarchies orientales. Recherches sur son organisation interne et sa politique extérieure, Liège (Belgium), pp. 2 and 22
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