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Troy, a city both factual and legendary,…
Troy, a city both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida, is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey seems to show that the name Ilion formerly began with a digamma (waw, or wau); whiuhc would render the name as Wilion.
This evidence will later be supported by the Hittite form, Wilusa.
The site of Troy, at present-day Hissarlik in Turkey, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, is first settled about 3000 BCE.
A small fortress is built, enclosed by a strong wall.
The settlers, who build houses with foundations of stone and walls of clay brick, know of copper but normally use bone and stone for tools and weapons.
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The Middle of The Earth
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