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Name: Aspendos

Type: Polity

Start: 699 BC

End: 546 BC

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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Pamphylia.

Establishment

  • January 699 BC: Aspendos was founded by Greek colonists around 700 BC during a wave of Greek colonization in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, and along the shores of the Black Sea.

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    1. Wars of Cyrus the Great

    Were a series of expansionistic military campaigns by the first Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great.

    1.1.Cyrus' Conquest of the Lydian Empire

    Was a war between the Achaemenid and the Lydian Empires that ended with the demise of the latter.

  • January 545 BC: After Cyrus the Great defeated King Croesus of Lydia in -546, the region of Pamphylia, including the city of Aspendos, came under the control of the Achaemenid Empire. This marked the expansion of Persian influence in the region.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 545 BC: After Cyrus the Great defeated King Croesus of Lydia in -546, the region of Pamphylia, including the city of Aspendos, came under the control of the Achaemenid Empire. This marked the expansion of Persian influence in the region.

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