Troy, also Ilium, was a city in the northwest of Asia Minor, southwest of the Çanakkale Strait, south of the mouth of the Dardanelles and northwest of Mount Ida. The location in the present day is the hill of Hisarlik and its immediate vicinity. In modern scholarly nomenclature, the Ridge of Troy borders the Plain of Troy, flat agricultural land, which conducts the lower Scamander River to the strait. Troy 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 formerly began with a digamma: Ϝίλιον; this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa.
About Troy
Loosely based on Homer's Illiad, this epic war film details the Greek forces assault on Troy. Brad Pitt won Choice Movie Actor for his role at the 2004 Teen Choice Awards.
Achievement of Troy
Screenwriter David Benioff would later co-create the critically acclaimed HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones. It ranked as the 8th highest-grossing film of 2004.
Top Facts You Did Not Know About Troy
Troy Category.. Troy Museum - The Troy Museum is an archaeological museum located close to the archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy, in northwestern Turkey.. Trojan War in popular culture - There is a wide range of ways in which people have represented the Trojan War in popular culture.. Ancient settlements in Turkey - Below is the list of ancient settlements in Turkey. There are innumerable ruins of ancient settlements spread all over the country. While some ruins date back to Neolithic times, most of them were settlements of Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Ionians, Urartians etc.. Cities of the ancient Near East - The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age with some 30,000 inhabitants was the largest city of the time by far.. Dardanians (Trojan) - The Dardanoi in classical writings were either the same people as, or a people closely related to, the Trojans, an ancient people of the Troad, located in northwestern Anatolia. The Dardanoi derived their name from Dardanus, the mythical founder of Dardania, an ancient city in the Troad.. Historicity of the Iliad - The extent of the historical basis of the Iliad has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries.. Geography of Çanakkale Province.. World Heritage Sites in Turkey.. Archaeological sites in the Marmara Region.. Populated places established in the 3rd millennium BC.. Razed cities.. National parks of Turkey.. History of Çanakkale Province.. Ezine District.. Destroyed cities.. Ancient Greek geography.. Locations in Greek mythology.. Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey.
