Ledra
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Ledra (), also spelt Ledrae, was an ancient city-kingdom in the centre of Cyprus where the capital city of Nicosia is today.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Ledra
- Ancient site.native_name
- Λήδρα
- Ancient site.image
- File:Ancient_kingdoms_of_Cyprus_en.svg
- Ancient site.caption
- Ancient city-Kingdoms of Cyprus
- Ancient site.map_type
- Cyprus
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Cyprus
- Ancient site.region
- Nicosia District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- City-kingdom of Cyprus
- Country
- Cyprus
- Location
- Cyprus
- Image
- Ancient kingdoms of Cyprus en.svg
- Said to be same as
- Nicosia
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- native label
- Λῆδραι
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ledra (), also spelt Ledrae, was an ancient city-kingdom in the centre of Cyprus where the capital city of Nicosia is today.
Ledra was established in 1050 BC. It had become a city-kingdom by the seventh century BC. At times, it had been subject to Assyrian rule. Ledra was one of ten Cypriot kingdoms listed on the prism (many-sided tablet) of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (680–669 BC). The only known king of Ledra is Onasagoras, mentioned in this tablet for paying tribute to Esarhaddon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ledra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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