Troas and Troy
The Troad is the landscape around Troy, at the entrance to the Dardanelles. Troy itself has nine main settlement layers, from a Bronze Age fortress to a Roman city; its identification with Homer's Iliad has shaped both archaeology and the modern imagination. Hittite records mention a place called Wilusa, widely linked with Ilios, and a ruler named Alaksandu, a name echoed by Alexandros (Paris). Beyond the epic, the region was a meeting point for Aegean, Balkan and Anatolian trade. Assos, Alexandria Troas and Parion were important Greek and Roman cities; their temples, harbours and roads show how the Troad stayed strategic long after the Trojan War.
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