The Battle of Pteria (Ancient Greek: Πτερία) was fought in 547 BC between the Persian forces of Cyrus the Great and the Lydian forces of Croesus. Both armies suffered heavy casualties in this indecisive battle.
^Schmitt, Rüdiger; Miller, Margaret C.; Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques; Shaki, Mansour; Bichler, Reinhold; Rollinger, Robert; Boucharlat, Rémy; Rapin, Claude; Davis, Dick (2020-08-20), "GREECE", Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, Brill, retrieved 2024-03-12, When the Lydian and the Persian army confronted each other in Cappadocian Pteria (Herodotus 1.75 ff.), the battle ended inconclusively the same evening.
The BattleofPteria (Ancient Greek: Πτερία) was fought in 547 BC between the Persian forces of Cyrus the Great and the Lydian forces of Croesus. Both...
into Lydia after the drawn BattleofPteria, met the remains of Croesus' partially-disbanded army in battle on the plain north of Sardis in December 547 BC...
and would remain a part of various successive empires. Although the dates for the battlesofPteria and Thymbra and of end of the Lydian empire have been...
increasing his numbers while passing through nations in his way. The BattleofPteria was effectively a stalemate, with both sides suffering heavy casualties...
historical reports, Pteria was destroyed, burned and abandoned during the BattleofPteria between the Lydians and the Medes. This battle ended during a solar...
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around 547 BC. Having defeated the Lydian king Croesus at the BattleofPteria and Battleof Thymbra, the Persians followed the retreating army back to Sardis...
the BattleofPteria ending without a victor. Progressing deeper into Persia, Croesus was thoroughly defeated in the Battleof Thymbra at the hands of the...
BC – Achaemenid Empire 547 BC – BattleofPteria between the Lydian Empire and the Achaemenid empire 539 BC – Fall of Babylon 537 BC – Cyrus allows the...
Battle of Pteria 547 BC Battleof Thymbra 547 BC Siege of Sardis 539 BC Battleof Opis Ionian Revolt 499–493 BC First Persian invasion of Greece 492–490...
and would remain a part of various successive empires. Although the dates for the battlesofPteria and Thymbra and of end of the Lydian empire have been...
the BattleofPteria ending without a victor. Progressing deeper into Persia, Croesus was thoroughly defeated in the Battleof Thymbra at the hands of the...
peak of power and prosperity. Croesus was defeated by Cyrus the Great at the battlesofPteria and Thymbra. Cyrus annexed Lydia after the Siege of Sardis...
Persian city ofPteria and enslaves its inhabitants. Meanwhile, Cyrus invites the Ionians to join him in battle. The Battlesof Thymbra and Pteria are fought...
calendar, which had 12 months of 30 days each and five epagomenal days, originated between 550 and 330 BC, when Cappadocia was part of the Persian Achaemenid...
the Lydians. Although the BattleofPteria led to a stalemate, the Lydians were forced to retreat to their capital city of Sardis. Some months later the...
statue of the occupant, a Xanthian king, was positioned on top. The friezes depicted scenes from the life of the king, including hunting and battle scenes...
allies of Media in its conflict with Lydia. For the Phrygians, Lydia was a long time opponent. BattleofPteria Alishar Hüyük Çadır Höyük Cities of the ancient...
Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines managed to retake it in the aftermath of the Battleof Ankara, but it fell definitively to the Ottomans in 1419. It was founded...
Anatolia beyond Pteria. This war lasted five years, until a solar eclipse occurred in 585 BCE during a battle (hence called the Battleof the Eclipse) opposing...
the territory he had conquered. After the Battleof Ipsos in 301 BC, Seleucus I Nicator won the territory of Syria, and he proceeded to found four "sister...
along the coast of the Aegean Sea at the Bay of Troy. Possible evidence of a battle was found in the form of bronze arrowheads and fire-damaged human remains...
join the twelve cities of Ionia together into the Ionian League. During his reign the city began to prosper. He died in a battle against the Carians when...
a battle fought near Thyateira saw the army of Roman emperor Valens defeat Roman usurper Procopius. Artemidorus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμίδωρος) of Thyateira...
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