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Ionia, known in Old Persian as Yauna (𐎹𐎢𐎴), [1] was a region within the satrapy of Lydia, with its capital at Sardis, within the First Persian Empire. The first mention of the Yauna is at the Behistun inscription .
Lydia (Ancient Greek: Λυδία, romanized: Ludía; Latin: Lȳdia) was an Iron Age kingdom situated in the west of Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire.
Lydia, including Ionia, during the Achaemenid Empire. The Satrapy of Lydia , known as Sparda in Old Persian ( Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭 , Sparda ), [ 1 ] was an administrative province ( satrapy ) of the Achaemenid Empire , located in the ancient kingdom of Lydia , with Sardis as its capital.
Tissaphernes was Satrap of Lydia, including Ionia, under the Achaemenid Empire. In 414 BC, Tissaphernes was assigned by Darius II to suppress the rebellion of Pissuthnes, the Persian satrap of Lydia and Ionia, and to take over his office. Tissaphernes bribed Pissuthnes' Greek mercenaries to desert him and promised that his life would be spared ...
Lydia then became the Persian Satrapy of Sardis, also known as the Satrapy of Lydia and Ionia, although there was an unsuccessful rebellion led by Pactyas (Pactyes), the leader of the civil administration, against Tabalus, the Persian military commander (546–545 BC), shortly thereafter. Once Lydia had been subdued, Cyrus returned to deal with ...
The Ionians had settled along the coasts of Lydia and Caria, founding the twelve cities which made up Ionia. [11] These cities (part of the Ionian League) were Miletus, Myus and Priene in Caria; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea and Erythrae in Lydia; and the islands of Samos and Chios. [12]
The cities of Ionia had remained independent until they were conquered by the famous Lydian king Croesus, in around 560 BC. [3] The Ionian cities then remained under Lydian rule until Lydia was in turn conquered by the nascent Achaemenid Empire of Cyrus the Great. [4] The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule.
The kingdom of Lydia came to an end with the fall of Sardis, and its subjection was confirmed in an unsuccessful revolt in the following year that was promptly crushed by Cyrus's lieutenants. The Aeolian and Ionian cities on the coast of Asia-Minor , formerly tributaries of Lydia, were likewise conquered not long afterward.