Troy
ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the ancient city. For other uses, see Troy (disambiguation).
Troy [1][2] was a city in north-west Asia Minor. It was the center of the Trojan War, as told in eight long epic poems, six from the Epic Cycle,[3] and two written by Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.[4]
Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the location of Homeric Troy, in Hisarlik in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles.
UNESCO has listed the archaeological site of Troy as a World Heritage Site.
- "The archaeological site of Troy is of immense significance in the understanding of the development of European civilization at a critical stage in its early development. It is, moreover, of exceptional cultural importance because of the profound influence of Homer’s Iliad on the creative arts over more than two millennia". UNESCO citation.[5]