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MARMORA (anc. Proconnesus) , an island
Miletus
century B.C., Proconnesus was annexed by its powerful neighbour Cyzicus in 362. The island
white
marble which supplied the material for several famous buildings of antiquity (e.g. the palace of Mausolus at Halicarnassus
See C. Texier, Asie mineure (Paris, 1839-1849); M. I. Gedeon, IIpe,KSvvwos ( Constantinople , 1895); an exhaustive monograph by F. W. Hasluck in Journ. Hell
Stud
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