 Troy,
situated at a distance of 30 km from the Dardanelles. Troy,
which had been founded in the year 3000 B.C., and was demolished and
reconstructed nine times until the year 500 A.D. was inhabited
incessantly for 3500 years. Troy I. which had been founded in the year
3000 B.C. was demolished in the year 2500 BC and Troy II. that was
founded in its place, was brought to its end by a fire in the 2300's
B.C. Troy III, IV.and V. were founded successively. After these strata
which were not indicative of a great deal of activity, Troy VI. was
founded between the years 1800-1275 B.C. This Troy which is worthy of
attention today with its city walls in good condition, was succeeded by
Troy VII which is the stratum where the famous war was made. This
stratum is divided into strata VIIa and VIIb respectively, and the
Trojan war, which was the first war in the world between the east and
the west, took place in Troy VIIa in the years of 1200 B.C.
Troy,
also Ilium (ancient Ilion), famous city of Greek legend, on the
northwestern corner of Asia Minor. The legendary founder of the city
was Ilus, the son of Tros, from whom the name Troy was derived. The son
and successor of Ilus was Laomedon, who was slain by the hero Hercules,
when Hercules captured the city. During the reign of Laomedon's son
Priam occurred the celebrated Trojan War, which resulted in the capture
and destruction of the city
  During this
war many people came to
the aid of Troy
from various places of Anatolia, but because of the trick of the
"Wooden Horse", the city fell and Troy
was burnt and destroyed. The Trojans who could save themselves from
this massacre, built their city over again and kept on living there. Troy
VIII. which followed Troy VII, acquired the properties of the
Hellenistic period, and Troy IX became the Troy of the Roman
period.Schliemann conducted excavations in Troy in 1870; following him,
Dörpfeld and later in the year 1935, Blegen from America,
continued the excavations there.
Do you
know this? The battlefield of
the Trojan War is in the Turkish city Troy.
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