Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Phocaea was the first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest of the Greeks to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea [16,43] (sea), Europe Adriatic Sea, and Etruria (region (general)), Italy, EuropeTyrrhenia, and Iberian Peninsula (peninsula), EuropeIberia, and Tartessus,The lower valley of the Guadalquivir (river), Andalusia, Spain, EuropeGuadalquivir. Later Tartessus was identified with Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, EuropeGades (Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, EuropeCadiz), which Herodotus (Hdt. 4.8) calls Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, EuropeGadira.

not sailing in round freightships but in fifty-oared vessels. When they came to Tartessus they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonius; he ruled Tartessus for eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.A common Greek tradition, apparently; Anacreon (Fr. 8) says “I would not... rule Tartessus for an hundred and fifty years.

The Phocaeans won this man's friendship to such a degree that he invited them to leave Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia and settle in his country wherever they liked; and then, when he could not persuade them to, and learned from them how the Median power was increasing, he gave them money to build a wall around their city.

He gave it generously: for the circuit of the wall is of not a few stades, and all this is made of great stones well fitted together.