Editing Lydia (section)

===Persian Empire===
{{Main|Lydia (satrapy)}}
[[File:Satrapy_of_Lydia.jpg|thumb|left|Lydia, including Ionia, during the Achaemenid Empire.]]
[[File:Xerxes I tomb Lydian soldier circa 470 BCE cleaned up.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Xerxes I]] tomb, Lydian soldier of the [[Achaemenid army]], circa 480 BC]]
In 547 BC, the Lydian king [[Croesus]] besieged and captured the Persian city of [[Pteria (Turkey)|Pteria]] in [[Cappadocia]] and enslaved its inhabitants. The Persian king [[Cyrus The Great]] marched with his army against the Lydians. The [[Battle of Pteria]] resulted in a stalemate, forcing the Lydians to retreat to their capital city of Sardis. Some months later the Persian and Lydian kings met at the [[Battle of Thymbra]]. Cyrus won and captured the capital city of Sardis by 546 BC.<ref>''New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor: Light from Archaeology on Cities of Paul and the Seven Churches of Revelation'' {{ISBN|1-59244-230-7}} p. 65</ref> Lydia became a province ([[satrapy]]) of the Persian Empire.