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Ada of Caria
Ada of Caria, sometimes called Ada I, was a fourth-century BC ruler of Caria who married her brother Idrieus, was displaced by Pixodarus, and was restored by Alexander the Great in 334 BC.
Agron of Lydia
Agron of Lydia is the legendary founder of the Heraclid dynasty, named by Herodotus as the first of the Heracleidai to become king of Sardis.
Alyattes
Alyattes of Lydia, also known as Alyattes (Lydian Walwet), was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, father of Croesus, who expanded Lydia into an empire and issued the first electrum coins.
Ambaris
Ambaris, also known as Ambaris of Bit-Purutash, was a king of Tabal in central Anatolia, placed on his throne by Sargon II and deported to Assyria after rebelling in 713 BC.
Arbinas
Arbinas, also known as Erbbina, was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in south-west Anatolia who ruled c. 390–380 BC and is known chiefly from the Nereid Monument tomb.
Ardys of Lydia
Ardys of Lydia, also known as Ardysus, was king of Lydia, son and successor of Gyges, who captured Priene and invaded Miletus while Cimmerians sacked Sardis.
Candaules
Candaules (Κανδαύλης), also called Myrsilus, was the last Heracleid king of Lydia, reigning at Sardis until his bodyguard Gyges murdered him and founded the Mermnad dynasty, a story told by Herodotus.
Dascylus (father of Gyges)
Dascylus is the father of Gyges, the bodyguard who seized the throne of Sardis and founded the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia, known only from a single clause in Herodotus.
Gordias
Gordias, also spelled Gordios (Greek: Γόρδιος), is a legendary king of Phrygia, remembered as a peasant raised to kingship by an omen, as father of Midas, and as owner of the Gordian Knot.
Gyges (king of Lydia)
Gyges, also known as Gyges of Lydia, was king of Lydia in western Anatolia during the 7th century BC, founder of the Mermnad dynasty, killed fighting the Cimmerians.
Hulli
Ḫulli was a king of Tabal in Iron Age Central Anatolia, installed by Tiglath-pileser III around 730 BC after Wasusarma failed to pay tribute; Assyrian records call him "the son of a nobody".
Kherei
Kherei of Xanthos was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in southwestern Anatolia during the late fifth and early fourth century BC, known from inscriptions and his silver coinage.
Kheriga
Kheriga (Lycian Χeriga, Greek Gergis) was a dynast of Xanthos in Lycia who ruled around 440 to 400 BC and is known chiefly from the Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos.
Kikki (Anatolian king)
Kikki, also written Kiakki, was a ruler of Tabal in south-central Anatolia, son of King Tuatti, who submitted to Shalmaneser III of Assyria around 837 BC.
Kuprlli
Kuprlli, also Kuprilli, was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in southwestern Anatolia, active around 480 to 440 BC, known from his silver coins and the Xanthos trilingual inscription.
Kurti of Atuna
Kurti of Atuna, also known as Kurtî, was a ruler of the small Anatolian kingdom of Atuna in Tabal, given the neighboring kingdom of Šinuḫtu by Sargon II in 718 BC.
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus, also known as Lygdamis of Halicarnassus, was a Carian ruler of Halicarnassus under Persian overlordship and the father of Artemisia I.
Manes of Lydia
Manes, a legendary king of Lydia, is documented by Herodotus as the father of Atys. He is believed to be at the head of the Atyad line.
Meles of Lydia
Meles of Lydia was a semi-historical Heraclid king of Sardis of the 8th century BC, placed just before Candaules and known from Herodotus' lion legend.
Mugallu
Mugallu, also written Mukalli, was a king of Melid and then of Tabal in Central Anatolia, recorded by the Assyrians from 675 BC and succeeded by his son around 640 BC.
Pantaleon
Pantaleon (Greek Πανταλέων) was a son of King Alyattes of Lydia by an Ionian mother and half-brother of Croesus, remembered for an unsuccessful claim to the Lydian throne.
Pericles of Limyra
Pericles of Limyra, also spelled Perikles, was an early 4th-century BC dynast who ruled eastern Lycia, capturing Xanthos and calling himself ruler of the Lycians.
Pisindelis
Pisindelis was a dynast of Halicarnassus in Caria, the under-age son of Queen Artemisia I, who ruled as his regent under Persian suzerainty in the fifth century BC.
Sadyattes
Sadyattes (Σαδυάττης) was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, the third ruler of the Mermnad dynasty founded by Gyges, remembered for the long Lydian war against Miletus.
Sandasarme
Sandasarme, also Sandas-sarme, was a king of Ḫilakku, the mountainous western part of Cilicia, who appears in Neo-Assyrian records around 662 BC, when his kingdom placed itself under Assyrian protection against the Cimmerians.
Tuwati
Tuwati, also rendered Tuwatis or Tuatti, was a great king of Tabal in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC, known as the father of King Wasusarma.
Warpalawas
Warpalawas, also known as Warpalawa, was king of Tuwana in the Tabal region of southern Cappadocia, a tribute-paying vassal of Assyria known from the İvriz rock relief.
Wasusarma
Wasusarma, also known as Wassurme, was a Great King of Tabal in eighth-century BC central Anatolia, son of Tuwati and deposed by the Assyrians around 730 BC.