SARDES(SARDIS)

Sardis is located in the basin of Hermos / Gediz, on the banks of Paktalos / Sartçayı and the northern slopes of the mountains in the west of the Tmolos / Bozdağı. The myth that it was of a king named Meles.

During the era of Hettiter in the years 1750-1200 BC knows the territory, which includes Sardis, as Assuwa. "Whether Sardis at this time a village, a stain or a city with a palace, you do not know. If Dr. Veli Sevin claims that Sardis during the Bronze Age village was a anatolisches, so it was that A. Ramage towards the end of the Bronze Age (1200-1000 BC) a major urban centre. Although Sardis in the 7th and 6th century BC a rapid development. Hettiter have their time trying to Anatolia in a political entity to create and it is they succeeded. "As the Assuwa / Arzava Konfederation" the Hettitern in this entgegenstellte their projects, they have to reign her emperor Tudhaliya IV (1250-1220 BC) Sardis burned down. Despite this event remains the relationship with the Hettitern superficial. The excavations in Sardis is only one Pfeilspitzte hettitischer style have been found. The Tata thing that you can not seal found Hannfmann is so gedeutend been that in the period before 7 Ct. BC no Scripture. It had Luwier that previously, in 2nd Millennium BC, lived in this area, both the hettitische writing, as well as a hieroglyphic writing in their own language.

Contrary to what Strabo claimed that the excavations show that the city of Sardis in the Bronze Age maintained relations with Troy. A whole range of authors also argue that the names of Lydia and Sardis after the time of King Gyges used. After Xanthos is the city in the Greek text as Sardeis Sardis or written to us so well-known city but in the actual language of Lydier Sfardis / Sparda and called this word means "year". Homer mentioned Sardis, but he uses the name Hyde. The name Sardis us first met in the poems of the singer Archilochos from Paros in the 7th Ct. BC Sardis started after this century, famous.

We also begenen various other thoughts on the word Sardis. So writes e.g. Ch Texier, the name of the city come from the Armenian word "Sardar", and some authors also argue that migrant Thrakier the city had this name. The ancient Nikonor author claims that the old name of the city was at the beginning of the Iron Age and Homer Hyde had this name in its Illiade used. Hemp man next to the name, the name Hyde Xuaris. Pliny, Strabo, however, to keep the name Hyde was only for the "Acropolis" have been used.

From the day when it became the capital of the Asia tables Federation, Sardis enters the stage of history. For centuries, succeeded in the city, their place in the foreground to say and it was a magnificent symbol of Anatoly's civilization.

Sardis although the penetration of the Turks to Anatolia and some natural events such as earthquakes and floods its significance and, more recently, including its physical location of the district town Salihli leave. Hemp man thinks that we müsen if we Sardis in our imaginations wiedererstehen want, not just today's roads and railways wegdenken, but also a variety of changes to the landscape by earthquakes and landslides, the abundant winter rains and erosion in mind.