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Sardis, ruined capital of ancient Lydia, about 50 miles (80 km) east of present İzmir, Turkey. Strategically located on a spur at the foot of Mount Tmolus (Boz Dağ), it commanded the central plain of the Hermus Valley and was the western terminus of the Persian Royal Road.
Under the Achaemenid Persians (547 - 334 BC), Sardis was the capital of a major satrapy (province) of Asia Minor, and the mustering-point for the invasions of Greece under the Great Kings Darius and Xerxes.
Sardis is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 1,748. Sardis is one of two county seats for Panola County; the other is Batesville, on the south side of the Tallahatchie River.
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Like Troy, Sardis was a citadel and place of refuge, the residence of king and courtier. It must have been inhabited from the first coming of man to the Hermus valley, and a place of importance from the first days of the Lydian kingdom in the 13th cent. b.c.
New research reveals how stepped terraces in ancient Sardis shaped early urban planning and influenced later monumental Lydian architecture.
