Ancient Troy

Turkey / Canakkale / Ezine /
 ruins, place with historical importance, archaeological site, excavation, barrow/tumulus/burial mound, UNESCO World Heritage Site, national park
Troy (Ancient Greek Τροία Troia, also Ίλιον Ilion; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, Turkish Truva, in Hisarlık (39°58′N 26°13′E) in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida. A new city of Ilium was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople, and declined gradually during Byzantine times.

See www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect4/TroylayersredVI.jp... for a clearer idea of the extent of Troy. The region enclosed in the polygon is the citadel only, the main body of the city, surrounded by ditches and walls, was about five times as big.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
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Coordinates:   39°57'27"N   26°14'19"E

Comments

  • If you zoom out a bit, you can clearly see the ancient coastline, now far inland, which would have put Troy much closer to the beach, as Homer described.
  • fuit ilium