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- DictionarySar·dis/ˈsärdəs/
- 1. an ancient city of Asia Minor, the capital of Lydia, whose ruins lie near the west coast of modern Turkey, to the northeast of Izmir.
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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. Wikipedia