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

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