Definitions for "Sardis"
an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402
Persian city which was sacked by Aristagoras in the Ionian Revolt. It is the where the satrap of Lydia lives
(map) Modern Sart in south-west Turkey, capital of Lydia. After capture by Cyrus the Great in, traditionally, 547 BC, it became the seat of the Achaemenid satrapy.
Capital of the Lydian kingdom; located in western Anatolia.