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View from the heights of Marmara Island toward the coastal settlement and sea
Marmara Island Proconnesian Ancient Marble Quarries and Saraylar Museum

Research inventory

BalıkesirmarmaraIonia & Aeolis

Marmara Island Proconnesian Ancient Marble Quarries and Saraylar Museum

Reading the place

Not one monument, but a layered setting.

Proconnesian Marble Quarries represent Marmara Island's ancient mining monument, supplying Mediterranean capitals since antiquity.

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Balıkesir · marmara

Research note

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How to use this dossier

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Narratives that include this place

Periods

  • Ionia & Aeolis
  • Roman era
  • Eastern Roman era
  • Ottoman era
  • The Aegean today

Regional context

Northern Aegean

Research sources

District guide

Marmara

Province guide

Balıkesir