Alyattes I
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Alyattes I was the twenty-third king of Lydia
, and twentieth king of the Heraclid dynasty; see List of Kings of Lydia. He was succeeded by his son, Meles
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He is believed to have reigned between 759 and 745 BC.
Lydia
Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....
, and twentieth king of the Heraclid dynasty; see List of Kings of Lydia. He was succeeded by his son, Meles
Meles of Lydia
Meles was the twenty-fourth king of Lydia, and twenty-first king of the Heraclid dynasty; see List of Kings of Lydia. He was succeeded by his son, Candaules.He is believed to have reigned from 745 to 733 BC....
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Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...
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He is believed to have reigned between 759 and 745 BC.