Croesus of Lydia led before Cyrus the Great on the capture of Sardis, BC. Croesus, 595 BC – c. 546 BC. King of Lydia. Cyrus II of Persia, c. 600 – 530 BC, aka Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder. Founder of the Achaemenid Empire. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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