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Alyattes (Lydian language: 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤𐤯𐤤𐤮 Walweteś;
Ancient Gr****: Ἀλυάττης Aluáttēs;
reigned c. 635 – c. 585 BC),
sometimes described as
Alyattes I...
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Astyages with
Alyattes's daughter Aryenis, and the
possible wedding of a
daughter of
Cyaxares with
either Alyattes or with his son Croesus.
Alyattes died shortly...
- born from a
Ionian wife of
Alyattes.
Under his father's reign,
Croesus had been a
governor of Adramyttium,
which Alyattes had
rebuilt as a
centre of operations...
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other styles including rock-cut
tombs and cist graves. The
Tumulus of
Alyattes (Turkish: Koca
Mutaf Tepe) is the
largest at the site, with a
height of...
- 637–c.635 BCE; son of Ardys)
Alyattes (c.635–585 BCE; son of Sadyattes) Croesus, aka
Kroisos (c.585–546 BC; son of
Alyattes)
Gyges died in
battle c.644...
- "Goliath"
itself is non-Semitic and has been
linked with the
Lydian king
Alyattes,
which also fits the
Philistine context of the
biblical Goliath story....
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believed to have been used in
coins c. 600 BC in
Lydia during the
reign of
Alyattes.
Electrum was much
better for
coinage than gold,
mostly because it was...
- romanized: Aruēnis; Latin: Aryenis) was,
according to Herodotus, the
daughter of King
Alyattes of
Lydia and the
sister of King
Croesus of Lydia. The name
Aryenis comes...
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naturally occurring alloy of gold and
silver to mint the
first coins under Alyattes of Lydia. Pseudo-Plutarch in the De
fluviis write that the
river was initially...
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Eclipse of Thales: A
solar eclipse occurs as
predicted by Thales,
while Alyattes of
Lydia fights Cyaxares of
Media at the
Battle of Halys,
leading to a...
