Troy (Turkey) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor
About Troy (Turkey)
Troy was inhabited continuously from about 3500 BC to 500 AD. It's on a steep hill overlooking what was once a gulf of the sea, so it had a defensible position, and a sheltered harbour and anchorage. From here you could trade and control shipping through the Dardanelles to the Bosphorus and Black Sea, so it grew into an important city-state. From 800 BC the gulf silted up to create fertile farmland but continued to have a navigable estuary; eventually this too was lost. Troy was cut off and dwindled, then finished off by earthquakes. Legends told of wars between the gods, the superhumans of early times, and the Hellenistic city-states of the Aegean and Anatolia. The principal written account is Homer’s epic poemIliad, written in the 8th century BC and describing a war 400 years earlier. An
Top Attractions in Troy (Turkey)
Explore the best things to see and do in Troy (Turkey):
- ★Troy-Çanakkale Museum
Where to Stay in Troy (Turkey)
- 🏨Hisarlik Hotel
- 🏨Troia Pension & Camping
Troy (Turkey) Travel Guide Sections
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