Troy is the name of the Bronze Age city attacked in the Trojan War, a popular story in the mythology of ancient Greece, and the name given to the archaeological site in the north-west of Asia Minor (now Turkey) which has revealed a large and prosperous city occupied over millennia. There has been much scholarly debate as to whether mythical Troy actually existed and if so whether the archaeological site was the same city; however, it is now almost universally accepted that the archaeological excavations have revealed the city of Homer's Iliad. Other names for Troy include Hisarlik (Turkish), Ilios (Homer), Ilion (Greek) and Ilium (Roman). The archaeological site of Troy is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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Timeline
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3000 BCE - 2550 BCETroy I - First stone-walled village settlement
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2550 BCE - 2300 BCETroy II - origin of gold 'treasure' found by Schliemann
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2300 BCE - 1750 BCETroy III - Troy V
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1750 BCE - 1300 BCETroy VI - probable Troy of Homer's Iliad. City at its zenith.
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1334 BCETrojan War, according to Duris of Samos.
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1300 BCE - 950 BCETroy VIIa - VIIb Notable decline in architectural and artisitic standards
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c. 1250 BCETrojan War, according to Herodotus.
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1184 BCETrojan War, according to Eratosthenes.
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c. 950 BCE - 550 CETroy VIII Greek Ilion - Troy IX Roman Ilium
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c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCEHomer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
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c. 301 BCE - c. 320 BCEDoric temple to Athena and fortifications of Lysimachus built at Troy.
