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Lydia is a Biblical given name: Lydia of Thyatira, businesswoman in the city of Thyatira in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles.She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.
The Homeric name for the Lydians was Μαίονες, cited among the allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War, and from this name "Maeonia" and "Maeonians" derive and while these Bronze Age terms have sometimes been used as alternatives for Lydia and the Lydians, nuances have also been brought between them. The first attestation of Lydians ...
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's] name is an ethnicon, deriving from her place of origin". [1] The first refers to her place of birth, which is a city in the ancient region of Lydia (modern-day Akhisar , Turkey). The second comes from the Latin word for purple and relates to her connection with purple dye.
According to Stephanus of Byzantium, he called this city "Thuateira" from Greek θυγάτηρ, θυγατέρα (thugatēr, thugatera), meaning "daughter", although it is likely that it is an older, Lydian name. [2] [3] In classical times, Thyatira stood on the border between Lydia and Mysia. During the Roman era, (1st century AD), it was ...
Hyrcanis or Hyrkaneis, also known as Hyrcania (Ancient Greek: Ὑρκανία), was a Roman and Byzantine-era city [1] and bishopric in ancient Lydia, now in western Turkey. It was situated in the Hyrcanian plain (τὸ Ὑρκάνιον πεδίον), which is said to have derived its name from a colony of Hyrcanians being settled here by the ...
Setae was also the seat of a Byzantine Bishopric. Bishop Limenius signed the Chalcedon Creed [16] while Bishop Amachius [17] [18] spoke at the Council of Chalcedon. Limenius signed the documents at the Council of Ephesus. [19] Although it is an Islamic area now, under the name Saittae, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. [20]
The town of Sala is identifiable with Kepecik in today's west Turkey, but in antiquity was an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Lydia in Asia Minor. It was part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople during Byzantine times and was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sardis .