Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
LYD'IA, a Jewish proselyte from the city of Thyatira, in Lydia, engaged in the purple trade, possessed of wealth, and temporarily residing at Philippi, where she heard Paul preach. Acts 16:14. She accepted the Gospel, was baptized together with her household, and tendered hospitality to the apostle.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
LYD'IA, a coast-region of Asia Minor, extending along the Mediterranean from the promontory of Mycale to the mouth of the Hermas. It formed in olden times the centre of a great empire under Croesus; afterward it belonged successively to Syria, Pergamus, and the Romans. Its principal cities were Sardis, Thyatira, and Philadelphia. It is mentioned in 1 Mace. 8:8 among the provinces which the Romans transferred from Syria to Pergamus.