 According to Pausanias, the Megarians said that their town owed its origin to Car, the son of Phoroneus, who built the city citadel called 'Caria'.This 'Car of Megara' may or may not be one and the same as the 'Car of the Carians', also known as Car (King of Caria).In the late 7th century BC, the tyrant Thrasybulus preserved the independence of Miletus during a 12-year war fought against the Lydian Empire.