Marmara Sea

See also: Marmara

The Marmara Sea is a Mer located between the Eastern Europe and the minor Asia and which connects the Black Sea to the the Mediterranean. It extends on a surface from: 11500  km and a maximum depth of: 1261 meters. It is bordered with the Northern and the southern by the Turkey. It is located on a fault responsible for many and dramatic seisms.

It communicates to the North-East with the Black Sea by the the Bosphorus, and to south-west with the Aegean Sea by the Détroit of Dardanelles.

The name of Marmara would come from the old Greek term Marmaros or marmaron (indicating the mottled or veined white “marble” of blue) very running in the island of Prokonnēsos: island ( nēsos ) with the roe-deers ( prokos ), which indicates from “the island of Marmara”. This one gave by extension its name to the sea that the old Greek named up to now: the Propontide (because it gave access to them the Pont Euxin , old name of the Black Sea).

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