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Croesus 6th century BC
Last King of Lydia

He succeeded his father, Alyattes, in c.560BC. He made the Greeks of Asia Minor his tributaries, and extended his kingdom eastward from the Aegean to the Halys. His conquests, his mines, and the golden sand of the Pactolus made his wealth proverbial. Cyrus the Great defeated and imprisoned him (546).