Troy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:02:52 1 Homeric Troy
00:06:30 2 Search for Troy
00:08:13 2.1 Schliemann
00:10:33 2.2 Dörpfeld and Blegen
00:11:12 2.3 Korfmann
00:13:42 2.4 Recent developments
00:15:16 3 Fortifications of the city
00:16:39 4 Historical Troy uncovered
00:18:33 4.1 Troy I–V
00:20:10 4.1.1 Schliemann's Troy II
00:21:13 4.2 Troy VI and VII
00:27:57 4.2.1 Calvert's Thousand-Year Gap
00:30:11 4.3 Troy VIII
00:36:59 4.4 Troy IX
00:39:36 5 Classical Ilium (Ilion)
00:40:06 5.1 Ecclesiastical history
00:41:23 5.2 Titular see
00:42:37 6 Alternative views
00:42:47 6.1 Location
00:43:15 6.2 Hittite and Egyptian records
00:46:15 6.3 In later legend
00:48:34 7 See also



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Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία, Troía, Ἴλιον, Ílion or  Ἴλιος, Ílios; Latin: Troia and Ilium; Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭 Wilusa or 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 Truwisa; Turkish: Truva or Troya) was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, just south of the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey suggests that the name Ἴλιον (Ilion) formerly began with a digamma: Ϝίλιον (Wilion); this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa.
A new capital called Ilium (from Greek: Ἴλιον, Ilion) was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople, became a bishopric and declined gradually in the Byzantine era, but is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
In 1865, English archaeologist Frank Calvert excavated trial trenches in a field he had bought from a local farmer at Hisarlik, and in 1868, Heinrich Schliemann, a wealthy German businessman and archaeologist, also began excavating in the area after a chance meeting with Calvert in Çanakkale. These excavations revealed several cities built in succession. Schliemann was at first skeptical about the identification of Hisarlik with Troy, but was persuaded by Calvert and took over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hisarlik site, which was on Calvert's property. Troy VII has been identified with the city called Wilusa by the Hittites (the probable origin of the Greek Ἴλιον) and is generally (but not conclusively) identified with Homeric Troy.
Today, the hill at Hisarlik has given its name to a small village near the ruins, which supports the tourist trade visiting the Troia archaeological site. It lies within the province of Çanakkale, some 30 km south-west of the provincial capital, also called Çanakkale. The nearest village is Tevfikiye. The map here shows the adapted Scamander estuary with Ilium a little way inland across the Homeric plain. Due to Troy's location near the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea, it was a central hub for the military and trade.Troy was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.