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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 745 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEA OF
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MARMORA (anc. Propontis; Turk. Mermer Denisi)  , the small inland
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sea which (in
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part) separates the
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Turkish dominions in
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Europe from those in
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Asia, and is connected through the
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Bosporus with the
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Black Sea (q.v.) and through the
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Dardanelles with the
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Aegean . It is 170 M.
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long (E. to W.) and nearly 50 M. in extreme width, and has an
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area of 4500 sq. m . Its greatest
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depth is about 700 fathoms, the deepest parts (over 500 fathoms) occurring in three depressions in the
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northern portion—one
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close under the
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European
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shore to the
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south of
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Rodosto, another near the centre of the sea, and a third at the mouth of the Gulf of
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Ismid . There are several considerable islands, of which the largest,
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Marmora, lies in the
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west, off the
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peninsula of Kapu Dagh, along with Afsia, Aloni and smaller islands . In the
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east, off the
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Asiatic shore between the Bosporus and the Gulf of Ismid, are the Princes' Islands .

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