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7 lis 2024 · Troy, ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in literature and archaeology. It lay on trade routes between Europe and Asia, and questions of its size, wealth, and status are matters of scholarly debate.
Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία, romanized:Troíā; Latin: Trōia; Hittite: 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭, romanized:Truwiša / Taruiša) or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ίλιον, romanized:Ī́lion, Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭, romanized:Wiluša) [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlık (near Tevfikiye), Turkey. The place ...
Come explore the long archaeological history of Troy! There were at least nine different settlements built during the site’s 4,000-year history, creating a very complicated archaeological picture.
The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that...
Troy is the site of an ancient city 30 km southwest of Çanakkale in the Southern Marmara Region of Turkey. In Greek it was called Ilion, hence the name of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, which describes the climax of the legendary ten-year Trojan War. Map. Directions.
Aerial view of Troy with the Dardanelles in the background. The oldest settlement at Troy dates to the end of the fourth millennium B.C. It was founded on a small hilltop near an inland lagoon...
11 maj 2018 · Troy is the name of the Bronze Age city attacked in the Trojan War, a popular story in the mythology of ancient Greece, and the name given to the archaeological site in the north-west of Asia Minor (now Turkey) which has revealed a large and prosperous city occupied over millennia.
