Proconnesus or Prokonnesos (Ancient Greek: Προκόννησος), also spelt Proeconesus or Proikonnesos (Προικόνησος),[1] was a Greek town on the southwestern shore of Proconnesus island.
[2][3] This town, which was a colony of the Milesians,[4] was burnt by a Phoenician fleet, acting under the orders of Persian king Darius I.
The inhabitants of Cyzicus, at a time which we cannot ascertain, forced the Proconnesians to dwell together with them, and transferred the statue of the goddess Dindymene to their own city.
[6] Under Diocletian's edict against Manichaeism, De Maleficiis et Manichaeis, offenders were sent to labor in the mines at Proconnesus.
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