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The Battle of Thymbra was the decisive battle in the war between Croesus of the Lydian Kingdom and Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire. Cyrus, having pursued Croesus into Lydia following the drawn Battle of Pteria, met the remains of Croesus' partly disbanded army in battle on the plain north of Sardis on December, 547 BC. Even though Croesus' army was reinforced with many new men, Cyrus utterly defeated it, despite being outnumbered more or less 2:1.

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  • The Battle of Thymbra was the decisive battle in the war between Croesus of the Lydian Kingdom and Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire. Cyrus, having pursued Croesus into Lydia following the drawn Battle of Pteria, met the remains of Croesus' partly disbanded army in battle on the plain north of Sardis on December, 547 BC. Even though Croesus' army was reinforced with many new men, Cyrus utterly defeated it, despite being outnumbered more or less 2:1.
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  • Battle of Thymbra
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  • Heavy
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  • Achaemenid Empire
  • Arabian mercenaries,
  • Babylonianmercenaries,
  • Egyptianmercenaries
  • Lydian Kingdom,
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  • DecisivePersianvictory.
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  • 105,000
  • (300 engaged),
  • (Modern consensus)
  • (Xenophon)
  • 1,300camel cavalry,
  • 196,000 (Xenophon)
  • 300chariots
  • 420,000 (Xenophon)
  • 49,000
  • 5-6siege towers
  • 700chariots
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