Key facts

Year	547 BC	Wikidata P585 (point in time)
Era	Ancient (before 500)	derived from year
Location	Turkey	Natural Earth (modern borders)
Continent	Asia	Natural Earth
War / conflict	Cyrus the Great	Wikidata P361
Coordinates	38.6667, 27.8333	Wikidata P625

About the battle

The Battle of Thymbra was the decisive battle in the war between Croesus of the Lydian Kingdom and Cyrus II of the Achaemenid Empire. Cyrus, after he had pursued Croesus into Lydia after the drawn Battle of Pteria, met the remnants of Croesus' partially disbanded army in battle on the plain north of Sardis in December 547 BC. Croesus' army was about twice as large and had been reinforced with many new men, but Cyrus still utterly defeated it. That proved to be decisive, and after the 14-day Siege of Sardis, the city and possibly its king fell, and Lydia was conquered by the Persians.

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