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Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor.
Lydia may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
editMusic
edit- Lydia (band), an indie rock band
- Lydia (singer), Spanish pop singer Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (born 1980)
- Lydia, a 1974 album by Cold Blood
- "Lydia" (Fur Patrol song), 2000
- "Lydia" (Highly Suspect song), 2015
- "Lydia", a 1978 song by Dean Friedman
- "Lydia", a song from the 1979 album Back in Your Life by Jonathan Richman
- "Lydia", a song from the 2004 album F.I.R. by F.I.R.
- "Lydia", an 1871 composition by Gabriel Fauré
- "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," a 1939 signature tune of Groucho Marx
Other arts and entertainment
edit- Lydia (film), a 1941 drama starring Merle Oberon
- Lydia (play), a 2008 play by Octavio Solis
- HMS Lydia, a fictional ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower in The Happy Return, a novel by C.S. Forester
People and fictional characters
edit- Lydia (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
- Giota Lydia (born 1934), Greek Laiko singer
- Lydia of Thyatira, a woman mentioned in the New Testament in Acts 16
Places
editUnited States
edit- Lydia, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Lydia, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
- Lydia, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
- Lydia, South Carolina, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
- Lydia, Virginia, an unincorporated community
Elsewhere
edit- Lydia (satrapy), an administrative province of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
- Lydia Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
- 110 Lydia, an asteroid
Ships
edit- Lydia (whaling bark), a wrecked ship beneath King Street in San Francisco, California, US
- MV Moonta, an Australian coastal passenger ship renamed Lydia in 1955 and Le Lydia in 1967
- USS Lydia (SP-62), a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
- USS Lydia (ID-3524), a cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
See also
edit- "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", a 1939 song written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
- Lidia (disambiguation)
- Lydian (disambiguation)