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  1. Ancient kingdom in Anatolia (7th-6th
  2. centuries BC), with its capital at Sardis.
  3. The Lydians were the first Western people to
  4. use standard coinage. Their last king,
  5. Croesus, was conquered by the Persians 546
  6. BC.
  7.