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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 ...
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.
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.
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
22 mar 2023 · Troy was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in modern-day Turkey. The city was continuously inhabited from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2200 BCE) for around 4,000 years. It was located on a hill near Tevfikiye in the Dardanelles, which connects the Aegean to the Black Sea, a strategically important position because it commanded a major ...
8 lut 2022 · Troy is an ancient city and archaeological site in modern-day Turkey, but is also famously the setting for the legendary Trojan War in Homer's epic poems the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." In legend,...
21 paź 2024 · Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century BCE. The war stirred the imagination of ancient Greeks more than any other event in their history and was celebrated in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.
