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Location

  • Türkiye, Tevfikiye
  • geo:39.957367,26.238691

Period or year

  • -3000~ / 450~

Classification

  • city
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Hisarlik (Ilion - Troy)

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Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Achaean warriors captured the city of king Priam. Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war. Hittite:  Wilusa or Truwisa.

See:

  1. http://www.livius.org/to-ts/troy/troy_I-V.html
  2. Catalin Pavel, Homer and Archaeology: Perspectives from the East Aegean - West Anatolian Interface (In: V. Faranton, M. Mazoyer, eds., Homère et l’Anatolie, II, L’Harmattan, Paris, collection Kubaba, 2014, pp. 9-70)
  3. C. W. Blegen,  Troy and the Trojans. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1963

Ilium of Troje, bekend van de heldendichten Ilias en Odyssee van Homerus.

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Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2012-05-29) , last updated by p. jeffries (2025-03-02), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/3184
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Jeffries, P., Hisarlik (Ilion - Troy). https://vici.org/vici/3184, accessed 2026-11-12.