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Ilium/Troia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell

Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert

Last modified Feb 16, 2024 10:53 PM — History

tags: dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement, UWHS, fortification, extant remains, dare:ancient=1

An ancient city of northwest Anatolia with occupation ranging from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. Troy features as the central setting of Homer's Iliad.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550595

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
39.9574380796, 26.2385156164

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Troy Archaeological Site (3000 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ilium (750 BC - AD 640)
- Troia (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Troja (German, modern)
- Troy (English, modern)
- Τροία (Troía: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Τροίη (Troíē: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 550 BC)
- Ἴλιος (Ílios: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 550 BC)
Associated Modern Names:
- Hisarlık (Hisarlik: Turkish, modern)

Ilium/Troia makes connections with:

Ilium/Troia part of (regional) Troas (region) (unspecified date range)
Ilium/Troia located on Untitled (unspecified date range)

Ilium/Troia receives connections from:

Aqueduct at Roman Ilium located at Ilium/Troia (30 BC - AD 300)
Temple of Athena (Ilium) located at Ilium/Troia (330 BC - AD 300)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 C2 Ilium/Troia

Details:

The site of ancient Troy has been excavated by scholars of many nationalities, including by a joint team from the University of Tübingen and the University of Cincinnati. Their website, Projekt Troia, provided a wide variety of information about the site and the excavation in both English and German. The current excavator is Rüstem Aslan.

The mound site of Hisarlık is generally believed to be the site of the Troy that features in Homer's Iliad. Settlement at the site began as an Early Bronze Age citadel in the third millennium B.C.

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Suggested citation:
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, and R. Talbert, 'Ilium/Troia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550595> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550595 |title=Places: 550595 (Ilium/Troia) |author=Foss, C., G. Reger, S. Mitchell |accessdate=November 21, 2024 4:23 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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