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Cardia (in Greek Kαρδια), anciently the chief town of the Thracian Chersonese (today Gallipoli peninsula), was situated at the head of the gulf of Melas (today Saros bay). It was originally a colony of the , , ; Demosthenes, Speeches, "On the Chersonese", , , "On the Halonnesus", , ,
2 Pausanias, Description of Greece,
3 Strabo, Geography, ; Pausanias, ; Appian, The Civil Wars,; Ptolemy, Geographia, iii. 12; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, s.v. "Cardia"
4 Cornelius Nepos, Lives of Eminent Commanders, "Miltiades",
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