Editing Cimmerians (section)

=====Attack on Ionia and Aeolia=====
After sacking Sardis, Lydgamis and Kobos led the Cimmerians and the Treres into invading the Greek city-states of the [[Troad]],{{sfn|Sulimirski|Taylor|1991|p=559}}{{sfn|Tokhtas’ev|1991}} [[Aeolis|Aeolia]] and [[Ionia]] on the western coast of Anatolia,<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Phillips|1972|p=129}}|{{harvnb|Cook|1982|p=197}}|{{harvnb|Tokhtas’ev|1991}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1999|p=508}}|{{harvnb|Olbrycht|2000a|pp=91–92}}|{{harvnb|Parzinger|2004|p=19}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2017|p=70}}|{{harvnb|de Boer|2021|pp=20–21}}}}</ref> where they destroyed the city of [[Magnesia on the Maeander|Magnesia on the Meander]] as well as the [[Temple of Artemis|Artemision]] of [[Ephesus]].<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Graham|1982|p=116}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993a|p=113}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993b|pp=308–309}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1999|p=508}}|{{harvnb|Olbrycht|2000a|p=82}}|{{harvnb|Parzinger|2004|p=19}}|{{harvnb|de Boer|2006|p=45}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|2006|p=148}}|{{harvnb|Xydopoulos|2015|p=120}}|{{harvnb|Cunliffe|2019|p=33}}|{{harvnb|Cunliffe|2019|p=35}}|{{harvnb|de Boer|2021|pp=20–21}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2023|p=217}}}}</ref> The city of [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]] joined Ephesus and Magnesia in resisting the Cimmerian invasion.{{sfn|Ivantchik|1993b|p=311}}
[[File:History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria (1903) (14783417153).jpg|thumb|250px|left|Painting depicting Cimmerian mounted warriors from a [[Klazomenian sarcophagi|Klazomenian sarcophagus]].]]
[[File:Cimmerian.jpg|thumb|150px|Reproduction of a depiction of a Cimmerian archer from a Greek vase.]]

The Cimmerians and Treres remained on the western coast of Anatolia inhabited by the Greeks for three years, from {{c.|644}} to {{c.|641 BC}}, where later Greek tradition claimed that Lygdamis had occupied [[Antandrus|Antandros]] and [[Priene]], which forced a large number of the inhabitants of the coastal region called [[Batinētis]] to flee to the islands of the Aegean Sea.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993a|p=114}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|2006|p=148}}|{{harvnb|Cunliffe|2019|p=35}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2023|p=218}}}}</ref>