- Cardia (Thrace)
Cardia (in Greek Kαρδία), anciently the chief town of the
Thracian Chersonese (todayGallipoli peninsula), was situated at the head of the gulf of Melas (today Saros bay). It was originally acolony of the Milesians and Clazomenians; but subsequently, in the time ofMiltiades (late6th century BC ), the place also received Athenian colonists, as proved by Miltiades tyranny (515–493 BC ). But this didn't make Cardia necessarily always pro-Athenian: when in357 BC Athens took control of the Chersonese, the latter, under the rule of a Thracian prince, was the only city to remain neutral; but the decisive year was352 BC when the city conluded a treaty of amity with kingPhilip II of Macedon ia. A great crisis exploded whenDiopeithes , an Athenian mercenary captain, had in343 BC brought Attic settlers to the town; and since Cardia was unwilling to receive them, Philip immediately sent help to the town. The king proposed to settle the dispute between the two cities by arbitration, but Athens refused.rf|1|herod_7.58_6.34_9.115_dem1_dem2 The town was destroyed byLysimachus about309 BC rf|2|paus_1.9, and although it was afterwards rebuilt, it never again rose to any degree of prosperity, as Lysimachia, which was built in its vicinity and peopled with the inhabitants of Cardia, became the chief town in that neighbourhood.rf|3|strab_7.7_paus_1.10_app_4.88_ptol_3.12_steph Cardia was the birthplace of Alexander's secetaryEumenes rf|4|nepos_1 and of the historian Hieronymus.rf|5|paus_1.9References
*Curtius, Ernst; " [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=110a0711d4f714092396c0f8f0f97e0d;q1=cardia;cite1=curtius;cite1restrict=title;idno=acq1845.0005.001;view=toc The history of Greece] ", Adolphus William Ward (translator);
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*Smith, William (editor); " [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography] ", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064&layout=&loc=cardia "Cardia"] ,London , (1854)Notes
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