. . . "Sardis (/\u02C8s\u0251rd\u026As/) or Sardes (/\u02C8s\u0251rdi\u02D0z/; Lydian: Sfard; Ancient Greek: \u03A3\u03AC\u03C1\u03B4\u03B5\u03B9\u03C2 Sardeis; Old Persian: \U000103BF\U000103B1\U000103BC\U000103AD Sparda) was an ancient city at the location of modern Sart (Sartmahmut before 19 October 2005) in Turkey's Manisa Province. Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, one of the important cities of the Persian Empire, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times."@en .