in Greek mythology, Artace is mentioned as the place where the argonauts changed the stone anchor of the Argo for a larger one.
[3] Artace was burnt, together with Proconnesus, during the Ionian Revolt, in the reign of Darius I.
[4] Probably it was not rebuilt for quite some time, for Strabo in the 1st century does not mention it among the Mysian towns: but he speaks of a wooded mountain of the name, with an island of the same name near to it,[5] the same which Pliny the Elder calls Artacaeum.
[6] Timosthenes, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium,[7] also gives the name Artace or Artake to a mountain, and to a small island, one stadium from the land.
[8] It was a member of the Delian League since it appears in tribute records of Athens between 454/3 and 418/7 BCE.