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The Battle of Thymbra was the decisive battle in the war between Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus of Persia in the last weeks of 547 BC. 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 and utterly defeated it. This proved decisive, Sardis was captured, and Lydia was conquered by the Persians. The battle: Cyrus defeated the Lydian cavalry because it said that the smell of the Cyrus dromedaries frightened the Lydian horses. After the battle all the Lydian lands were annexed by the Persian empire including the Greek cities in Asia Minor, which opened the rising conflict between Greece and Persia. According to the Greek author Herodotus, Croesus was treated well and in respect after the battle by Cyrus, but this is contradicted by the Nabonidus Chronicle [1], one of the Babylonian Chronicles (althougth if the text refers or not to Lydia is unclear).
