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    Alyattes (Lydian language: 𐀄𐀠𐀩𐀄𐀀𐀯𐀀𐀟 Walweteƛ; Ancient Greek: áŒˆÎ»Ï…ÎŹÏ„Ï„Î·Ï‚ AluĂĄttēs; reigned c. 635 – c. 585 BC), sometimes described as Alyattes I...
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    Lydia (section Alyattes)
    Astyages with Alyattes's daughter Aryenis, and the possible wedding of a daughter of Cyaxares with either Alyattes or with his son Croesus. Alyattes died shortly...
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  • including the now redefined dwarf planet Pluto, fall into planetary alignment. Alyattes, king of Lydia (or 560 BC) Zedekiah, king of Judah Webster, Noah (1838)...
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    Cambyses I (redirect from Cambyses (II))
    His wife was reportedly a granddaughter of both Cyaxares of Media and Alyattes of Lydia. The result of their marriage was the birth of his successor Cyrus...
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    born from a Ionian wife of Alyattes. Under his father's reign, Croesus had been a governor of Adramyttium, which Alyattes had rebuilt as a centre of operations...
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  • Hermodike II was the daughter of a dynastic Agamemnon of Cyme and married to the third dynastic King Midas, possibly a literary reference to Alyattes of Lydia...
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  • 637–c.635 BCE; son of Ardys) Alyattes (c.635–585 BCE; son of Sadyattes) Croesus, aka Kroisos (c.585–546 BC; son of Alyattes) Gyges died in battle c.644...
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  • the Zhou dynasty of China. 28 May 585 BC—A solar eclipse occurs while Alyattes of Lydia fights Cyaxares of Media at a battle on the Halys river, leading...
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    the world's first bimetallic monetary system. Before Croesus, his father Alyattes had already started to mint various types of non-standardized coins. They...
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  • romanized: Aruēnis; Latin: Aryenis) was, according to Herodotus, the daughter of King Alyattes of Lydia and the sister of King Croesus of Lydia. The name Aryenis comes...
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    resisted the Lydian king Alyattes by fattening up a pair of mules and driving them out of the besieged city. When Alyattes' envoy was then sent to Priene...
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    is founded. 600 BC—Smyrna is sacked and destroyed by Alyattes of Lydia. 600 BC—Nebuchadnezzar II builds the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. c. 600 BC—Milan...
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  • Ardys of Lydia (redirect from Ardysus II)
    from Asia Minor, and of Sadyattes’s son and Ardys’s grandson, the king Alyattes of Lydia, whom Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Polyaenus claim finally defeated...
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  • protect Lydia from the Cimmerian attacks. He was succeeded by his son Alyattes, who continued the war against Miletus and would transform Lydia into a...
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    "Goliath" itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king Alyattes, which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story....
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    withstand the attacks from Lydia. He eventually concluded a peace treaty with Alyattes. A noted Cretan mercenary of this time was Hybrias. He was also a lyric...
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    of Lydia, which had been allied to the Scythians. After the Lydian king Alyattes refused to accede to Cyaxares's demands that these Scythian refugees be...
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  • Cilicia and Labynetus of Babylon negotiated a peace treaty between the king Alyattes of Lydia and the king Cyaxares of Media. War broke out between the two...
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    the extradition of Scythian fugitives from Media, but the Lydian monarch Alyattes refused, leading to war between the two kingdoms. The war between the Medes...
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  • joined with Labynetus (Nebuchadnezzar) in mediating between Cyaxares and Alyattes of Lydia, the kings respectively of Media and Lydia This page or section...
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    significant tumulus tombs. The largest was that made about 600 BC for King Alyattes of Lydia (in modern Turkey), the father of Croesus, which dominates the...
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    popular in Persia. (approximate date) Smyrna is sacked and destroyed by Alyattes I. (approximate date) The country of Armenia is created. (approximate date)...
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    Empire. It consists of over 100 tumuli including the monumental Tumulus of Alyattes which was commented on by ancient writers including Herodotus and still...
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    Phrygian king Midas and Hermodike II c. 600 BC to Alyattes of Lydia. Alyattes was Croesus' father and Hermodike II was likely his mother. When he came...
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    tomb at Pasargadae has almost exactly the same dimensions as the tomb of Alyattes, father of the Lydian King Croesus; however, some have refused the claim...
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    of synoecism, at the hands of its Lydian conquerors under their king, Alyattes, in 585 BC, in the Archaic Period of Greece. It is mentioned by Herodotus...
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  • China 28 May 585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares. This leads to a truce. This is one of the cardinal...
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    Cimmerians took control of KĂŒtahya and its surroundings. During the time when Alyattes was the king of Lydia, the Lydians took over the Cimmerian’s rule. In 546...
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    Jerusalem. The Hebrew prophet Ezekiel said to be born this year. 619 BC: Alyattes becomes king of Lydia. 619 BC: Death of King Xiang of Zhou, king of the...
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    silver bowl and its iron stand made by Glaucus of Chios and dedicated by Alyattes, father of Croesus, both of which Herodotus mentioned in his Histories...
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