Lydia

Sources from old books:

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

On the Northeast of Ionia is Lidya, famous onely for the two rivers, Castrus abounding with swannes, and Meander with windings, from hence termed meanders; and if some Authors may be worthy of credit, the natives were anciently the first known men that gave beginning to Merchandize, and exercised buying and selling, and proved the originall of the Tuscans, whose supreame Duke continues the same to this day, and is one of the greatest and most eminent Merchants in the world.