Where Troy was
An ancient city of northwest Anatolia with occupation ranging from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. Troy features as the central setting of Homer's Iliad. Athenaeum places it in the Anatolia region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Early Iron Age
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Troy.
- Ilium/Troia
- Ilium
- Troia
- Hisarlık
- Hisarlik
- Troja
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Troy
Where does the information about Troy come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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