Troy

:This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. For other uses see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation).

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Homer - Troy (disambiguation) - Ilion (disambiguation)

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Troy (Greek: {{polytonic|Τροία}} Troia (or {{polytonic|Τροίη}}) also  {{polytonic|Ἴλιον}} Ílion; see also List of traditional Greek place names; Latin: Troia, Ilium; Turkish: Truva) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homer's Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 9th or 8th century BC, but containing older material (Iliad means "about Ilion").

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Greek - List of traditional Greek place names - Latin - Turkish - Trojan War - Homer - Iliad - Ancient Greek - 9th - 8th

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Troy is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Asia Minor or Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.

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Anatolia - Turkey - Dardanelles - Mount Ida

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A new city of Ilium was founded on the site that many believed to be the location of the legendary Ilion in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople, and declined gradually during Byzantine times. The Roman city of Celeia (now Celje in Slovenia) has been referred to by some writers as Troia secunda ("the second Troy").

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Roman Emperor - Augustus - Constantinople - Byzantine - Celje - Slovenia

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In the 1870s the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated the area. Later excavations revealed several cities built in succession to one another. One of the earlier cities (Troy VIIa) is often identified with Homeric Troy. While such an identity is disputed, the site has been successfully identified with the city called Wilusa in Hittite texts; Ilion (which goes back to earlier Wilion with a digamma) is thought to be the Greek rendition of that name.

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1870s - German - Archaeologist - Heinrich Schliemann - Troy VIIa - Hittite - Digamma

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