Alexandria Troas
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Coin （Didrachm） of Alexandreia, 102-66 BC. Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo.
Reverse: Apollo Smintheus standing right, quiver over shoulder, holding bow, arrow, and patera, ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ ΣΜΙΝΘΕΩΣ [ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΓΟΡΟΥ in exergue].
Alexandria Troas （"Alexandria of the Troad"; Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια Τρωάς; Turkish: Eski Stambul） is the site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, the area known historically as Troad.
a little south of Tenedos （modern Bozcaada）.
It is located southeast of modern Dalyan, a village in the Ezine district of Çanakkale Province.
The site sprawls over an estimated 400 hectares （990 acres）; among the few structures remaining today are a ruined bath, an odeon, a theatre, gymnasium complex and a recently uncovered stadion.
The circuit of the old walls can still be traced.
According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia （Σιγία）; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandreia.
It did not receive its name until its name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in 301 BC, in memory of Alexander III of Macedon （Pliny merely states, in his view, that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria）.
However, Pliny's view is not correct, because the city continued being called Alexandria Troas, and so is also stated in the 4th-5th c.
AD Tabula Peutingeriana.
As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a "free and autonomous...