Lydia (Ionian coast) in 218 B.C.

Lydia (Ionian coast) — Ptolemaic Egypt › The Overseas Empire.

The Aegean seaboard of Asia Minor about Ephesus — held in 218 as a foothold among the wealthy Ionian cities. These coastal possessions are forward stations against the Seleucids and a source of harbours, revenue and recruits, but they sit in the most fiercely contested zone of the Hellenistic world, perpetually changing hands among the great kings.