[3] Ledra was one of ten Cypriot kingdoms listed on the prism (many-sided tablet) of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (680–669 BC).

The only known king of Ledra is Onasagoras, mentioned in this tablet for paying tribute to Esarhaddon.

An account suggested that it lost its city-kingdom status because it consolidated with other such kingdoms to form stronger territorial units.

[5] In 280 BC, Ledra became Leukotheon while the Byzantines started referring to it as Lefkon or "poplar grove".

[6] During the fourth century AD, it became a bishopric and was renamed Lefkosia.