 It is said that Miltiades founded it.Strabo places it on the Propontis between Crithote and Macron Teichos.According to Herodotus, Miltiades the Elder ordered a wall built between Cardia, which was on the coast of Gulf of Melas and Pactya, which was on the Propontis side, to prevent invasion of the Chersonesus by the Apsinthii.