Troy
Sign in to saveTroy (; /; ) or Ilion (; ) was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War. The archaeological site is open to the public as a tourist destination, and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.
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Troy was an ancient city in what is now Turkey that is famous as the legendary setting of the Trojan War in Greek mythology. The archaeological remains of the city are now a popular tourist site and have been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage location since 1998.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Troy
- Ancient site.native_name
- ()
- Ancient site.caption
- Walls of Late Bronze Age Troy
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey Marmara#Turkey#Greece
- Ancient site.map_size
- 280
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Çanakkale District, Çanakkale Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Troad
- Ancient site.part_of
- Historical National Park of Troia
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Frank Calvert, Heinrich Schliemann
- Ancient site.website
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/849/
- Ancient site.designation1_type
- Cultural
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37 sectionsContents
- Name
- Archaeological site
- Troy 0
- Troy I
- Troy II
- Troy III–V
- Middle Bronze Age
- Troy VI–VII
- Troy VI
- Troy VIIa
- Troy VIIb
- Troy VIII–IX
- Excavation history
- Early modern era
- Frank Calvert
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld
- Carl Blegen
- Manfred Korfmann
- Recent developments
- Historical Troy
- Troy VI–VII in Hittite records
- Classical and Hellenistic Troy (Troy VIII)
- Roman Troy (Troy IX)
- Christian bishopric
- Troy in legend
- Current status
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- General
- Archaeological
- Ecclesiastical history
- Mythology and literature
- External links
Troy (; /; ) or Ilion (; ) was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War. The archaeological site is open to the public as a tourist destination, and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.
Troy was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt during its 4000 years of settlement. As a result, nine archaeological layers have been identified at the site, each corresponding to a city built on the ruins of the previous. Archaeologists refer to these layers using Roman numerals, Troy I being the earliest and Troy IX being the latest.
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30th-century BC establishmentsAncient Greek archaeological sites in TurkeyArchaeological sites in the Marmara regionDestroyed populated placesEzine DistrictFormer kingdomsFormer populated places in TurkeyGeography of ancient GreeceGeography of Çanakkale ProvinceHistory of Çanakkale ProvinceLate Bronze Age collapseNational parks of Turkey