Madytos (or Maitos, or Madyta, Gr. Μάδυτος), by the modern town of Eceabat in Turkey) was an ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 city and port of Thrace , located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos (Thracian Peninsula).
The city was a colony of Aeolians ( a Greek tribe) from Lesbos who, according to the ancient authors, founded also Sestos and Alopekonessos and other cities of the Hellespont .
This was part of the Greek colonization movement of the 8th-7th c. BC. Later more colonists came from the Greek Ionian cities of Miletus and Klazomenae. Archaeological evidence also supports Aeolian or possibly Athenian origin of colonists .
Madytos is referred by Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...

 in relation to the Persian Wars , and by Thucidides in relation to the Battle of the Eurymedon

Battle of the Eurymedon

The Battle of the Eurymedon was a double battle, taking place both on water and land, between the Delian League of Athens and her Allies, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. It took place in either 469 or 466 BC, in the vicinity of the mouth of the Eurymedon River in Pamphylia, Asia Minor...

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Madytos was an active commercial port during the Byzantine period and the Middle Age . It was occupied by the Osman Turks in the 15th century. The city continued to have a mainly Greek population till 1920's when, after the Treaty of Lausanne

Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 July 1923, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty of Lausanne was ratified by the Greek government on 11 February 1924, by the Turkish government on 31...

and the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, most of the Greeks moved to Greece.