Sardis

Sardis

Sardis ranks 4,093rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Strabane, Mojkovac, and Endicott, New York. Memorable people born in Sardis include Artaphernes, Alcman, and Eunapius. Memorable people who died in Sardis include Croesus, Lysimachus, and Cleopatra of Macedon. Sardis has been the birth place of many writers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Sardis is located in Türkiye.

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. Now an active archaeological site, it is located in modern day Turkey, in Manisa Province, near the town of Sart. Read more on Wikipedia