Editing Lydia (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:Temple_of_Artemis_Sardis_Turkey4.jpg|thumb|left|The temple of [[Artemis]] in [[Sardis]], capital of Lydia]]
[[File:Tripolis_on_the_Meander,_Lydia,_Turkey_(19492900512).jpg|thumb|[[Tripolis on the Meander]] is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey.]]
[[File:Vue_sur_la_plaine_alluviale_du_Méandre.JPG|thumb|[[Büyük Menderes River]], also known as the Maeander is a river in Lydia.]]

Lydia is generally located east of ancient [[Ionia]] in the modern western Turkish provinces of [[Uşak Province|Uşak]], [[Manisa Province|Manisa]] and inland [[İzmir Province|İzmir]].<ref name="rhodes">Rhodes, P.J. ''A History of the Classical Greek World 478–323 BC''. 2nd edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 6.</ref>

The boundaries of historical Lydia varied across the centuries. It was bounded first by [[Mysia]], [[Caria]], [[Phrygia]] and coastal [[Ionia]]. Later, the military power of [[Alyattes of Lydia|Alyattes]] and [[Croesus]] expanded Lydia, which, with its capital at [[Sardis]], controlled all Asia Minor west of the River Halys, except [[Lycia]]. After the Persian conquest the River [[Maeander]] was regarded as its southern boundary, and during imperial Roman times Lydia comprised the country between Mysia and Caria on the one side and Phrygia and the [[Aegean Sea]] on the other.