- See
Battle of
Thymbra for the
fight in
Lydia between the
Persians and the Lydians. See
Thymbra (plant) for the
plant genus.
Thymbra or
Thymbre (Ancient...
-
Satureja thymbra,
commonly known as
savory of Crete,
whorled savory, pink savory, and
Roman hyssop (Arabic: za'atar rumi; za'atar franji), is a perennial-green...
- and culture. The term
refers both to
aromatic plants of the
Origanum and
Thymbra genera (including
Origanum syria****,
known as
Bible hyssop) and to the...
- 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, after...
-
Thymbra ****ata, also
commonly known as
spiked savoury,
spiked thymbra,
thyme spike and
donkey hyssop, is a perennial-green
dwarf shrub of the
family Lamiaceae...
-
Species Thymbra calostachya (Rech.f.) Rech.f. -
Crete Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav. -
widespread from
Morocco +
Portugal to
Turkey +
Palestine Thymbra sintenisii...
- thyme, Persian-hyssop and
Spanish oregano. It is also
known under the name
Thymbra capitata. The
plant has
rising stems and narrow, fleshy, oil-gland-dotted...
-
besieged Croesus in his capital, Sardis.
Shortly before the
final Battle of
Thymbra between the two rulers,
Harpagus advised Cyrus the
Great to
place his dromedaries...
-
introduced into the
Persian army by
Cyrus the Great, at the
Battle of
Thymbra. The
elephant was most
likely introduced into the
Persian army by Darius...
- However,
Cyrus followed Croesus and
defeated the
Lydian army
again at
Thymbra before besieging and
capturing the
Lydian capital of Sardis, thus bringing...
