 Herodotus mentions a place called "Cydrara", to which Xerxes came on his road from Colossae to Sardes.It was the border between Lydia and Phrygia, and the Lydian king Croesus fixed a stele there with an inscription on it, which declared the boundary.Classical scholar William Martin Leake thought that the Cydrara of Herodotus may be Carura.