Sardis

settlement

ancient city in Anatolia, today an archaeological site at Sart, Turkey

Location: 38.4883, 28.0403 · Pleiades 550867

Who is recorded here

Melito of Sardis death · AD 180
Eunapius birth · AD 349

What happened here

On the Pascha and the strife at Laodicea AD 165
The Apology to Marcus Aurelius AD 170

In art

File:The Bath-Gymnasium complex at Sardis, late 2nd - early 3rd century AD, Sardis, Turkey (17098680002).jpg — Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany

About the place

Sardis or Sardes was an ancient city best known as the capital of the Lydian Empire. After the fall of the Lydian Empire, it became the capital of the Persian satrapy of Lydia and later a major center of Hellenistic and Byzantine culture.

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