Proconnèse
See also: Marmara
Proconnèse (in Greek old Προικόννησος / Proikónnêsos ), current island of Marmara , is the largest island of the Marmara Sea, near to the city of Cyzique. It was re-elected in the Antiquité for its careers of Marbre, which provided most of the marble used in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople. The Sarcophage S which were produced there exported in the whole of the late Roman world.
Proconnèse was the seat of the archbishop's palace of the Islands at the time Byzantine. The island was used as place of exile, in particular for the ecclesiastics: Etienne the Young person in 754, the patriarch Michel Cérulaire in 1058, the patriarch Arsenios in 1264 were exiled there.
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