Proconnesus, also spelled Prokonnesos, was a Greek town on the southwestern shore of Proconnesus island in the Sea of Marmara, in what is now Turkey. It was founded as a colony of the Milesians and was home to the poet Aristeas, author of the Arimaspeia. The town was burned by a Phoenician fleet acting under the Persian king Darius I, and the geographer Strabo later distinguished between an old and a new Proconnesus. At some point the inhabitants of nearby Cyzicus forced the Proconnesians to resettle among them, transferring the statue of the goddess Dindymene to Cyzicus.
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Latitude40.591686 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Proconnesus (city) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 40.591686, longitude 27.55568
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 40.5917,27.5557
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 190.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 27.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 27.75
40.75 27.75 Csa
4. GeoNames: Marmara - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 741730, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.6 km)Quote, cities500 record 741730, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.6 km)
40.58633 27.55541 P PPLA2 TR 10 7733225 2137 22 Europe/Istanbul
Proconnesus (city)
Wikidata: Proconnesus (city)
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