Anatolian Civilizations and Historical Sites - TEDA

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The synagogue at Sardis. 3 rd century AD. Forecourt of the synagogue at Sardis
belongs to me. It is you they are robbing.’ This evidently gave Kyros pause
for thought and he immediately ordered the fires be put out and the
looting halted. With the overthrow of the Lydian kingdom. Sardis fell into
Persian hands and the fabulous Lydian treasury was carted off to Persia.
nevertheless, the strategic location of Sardis ensured that it would
remain important even as the capital of a Persian satrapy. The Persians'
famous ‘Royal Road’ connecting western Asia Minor to Kyros's capital in
Susa terminated in Sardis and this fact further enhanced the city's status.
In 344 BC Alexander the Great took Sardis from the Persians and after his
death the city was ruled by the Seleucids. Antiochos the Great captured
in the city in 213 BC after a two-year siege. In 180 BC it became part of the
kingdom of Pergamon and in 133 BC it came under Roman control. It was
during Roman times that the city enjoyed its greatest prosperity and many