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Ancient Troy is famous for the legendary Trojan Horse from the
times of an equally legendary
couple: Helen and Paris. The remains of the city were excavated by Heinrich
Schliemann, a German archeologist who used Homer’s Iliad to locate the site,
and who also took all of the invaluable treasures he found there back to Germany
with him. Homer had immortalized Troy with his immortal narration of the stories
of King Priam, Hector, Paris and the beautiful Helen. Excavations revealed nine
separate periods (layers) of settlement. The ruins include a temple, a theater
and foundations. Today, a recent wooden copy of the famous Trojan Horse
symbolically stands on the site to recall its legendary original since long
vanished.
The earliest - known inhabitants of the region lived in the
Chalcolithic sites of Besiktepe and Kumtepe. They were followed by Trojans who
lived in this land dating back from 3000 B.C. to 1200 B.C. without being
influenced. After Troy had been sacked, Achaeans settled. During t he migrations
across the Aegean Sea, some others came and settles. Finally, after the death of
the Commander Roger De Flor, the Catalonians controlled the region but they
handed it over to Turkish Beys after reaching an agreement with them.
TROY
It is located on a mound called "Hisarlik" on the
south - east side of the plain of the River Scamander, where the Straits join
with the Aegean and are tat-her narrow, within the boundaries of the Province of
Canakkale. Troy is famous for
different reasons. First, it is associated with the sagas of the Trojan War told
by Homer in the "Iliad" and the “Odyses". Second, it is linked
with the German excavator Schliemann who dug the ground the first time. At the
end of the excavations nine cities have been unearthed. Later on they have been
subdivided into 46 strata.
TROY 1 (3000-2500 B.C.) - TROY 11 (2500-2200 B.C.)
- TROY III (2200-MO B.C.) - TROY IV (2052-1900 B.C.)
TROY V
(1900-1800 B.C.) - TROY VI (1800-1300 B.C.) - TROY VII / A (1300-1260 B.C.)
TROY VII B 1 (1260-1190 B.C.) - TROY VII B 2 (1190-110 B.C.)
- TROY IX (350-400 A.D.)
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