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MARMORA (anc. Proconnesus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 745 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARMORA (anc. Proconnesus)  , an
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island in the
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sea of the same name . Originally settled by Greeks from
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Miletus in the 8th
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century B.C., Proconnesus was annexed by its powerful
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neighbour
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Cyzicus in 362 . The island has at all times been noted for its quarries of
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white
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marble which supplied the material for several famous buildings of antiquity (e.g. the
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palace of
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Mausolus at
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Halicarnassus) . See C . Texier, Asie mineure (
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Paris, 1839-1849); M . I . Gedeon, IIpe,KSvvwos (
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Constantinople, 1895); an exhaustive monograph by F . W . Hasluck in Journ .
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Hell .
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Stud.,
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xxix., 1909 .

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