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Troy, the legendary town of the Homer #51614459
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Troy (Ancient Greek: Ἴûùÿý, Ilion, or ἼûùÿÃâ, Ilios; and äÃÂÿïñ, Troia; Latin: TrÃ
Âia and êlium;Hittite: Wilusa or Truwisa; Turkish: Truva) is a city well-known to both history and legend (as well as archaeology), and was situated in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey (but which was known in Classical sources as Asia Minor), located south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles/Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida at Hisaronu. It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
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