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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Troy
Turkish: Truva) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
One of the earlier cities (Troy VII) is often identified with Homeric Troy.
While such an identity is disputed, the site has been successfully identified with the city called Wilusa in Hittite texts; Ilion (which goes back to earlier Wilion with a digamma) is thought to be the Greek rendition of that name.
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  Ilion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ilion or Ilium is an alternative name (in Greek and Latin, respectively) for the legendary city of Troy.
The ilium, or ilion (not to be confused with the ileum), is a bone, part of the pelvis.
Ilion, New York is a village in Herkimer County, New York.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Heinrich Schliemann
Homer (Greek:) is the name given to the supposed unitary author of the early Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Interest in and connection with the classics continued during his time at the Gymnasium, so it is likely that he would have been further exposed to Homer.
Charles Maclaren (7th October 1782 - 10th September 1866) was a Scottish editor born in Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, the son of a farmer and cattle-dealer.
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 Ilion - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ilion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ilion is situated on the Mohawk River, 16 km/10 mi southeast of Utica.
Prospering with the growth of the Erie Canal in the 1820s, Ilion declined with the waterway later in the century, but was revitalized by the opening of the Remington firearms company, and still produces guns and ammunition.
The village lies in a dairy farming and market gardening region, and is now part of a larger community that includes the neighbouring municipalities of Mohawk, Herkimer, and Frankfort.
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 troy - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it.
A new city of Ilium was founded on the site that many believed to be the location of the legendary Ilion in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
While such an identity is disputed, the site has been successfully identified with the city called Wilusa in Hittite texts; Ilion (which goes back to earlier Wilion with a digamma) is thought to be the Greek rendition of that name.
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 TROY FACTS AND INFORMATION
:''This article is about the ancient city of Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it.
Troy (''Truva'', ''Hissarlik'') is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Asia Minor or Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.
A new city of Ilium was founded on the site that many believed to be the location of the legendary Ilion in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
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The aquatic ape hypothesis, a controversial proposal, suggests that the ancestors of modern humans went through one or more periods of time living in a semi-aquatic setting and gathered most of their food from shallow coastal or other waters before their descendants returned to a more land-based existence.
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For the asteroid family, see Trojan asteroids Walls of the excavated city of Troy Troy (Greek: Τροία [Troia], also Ίλιον [Ilion], Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
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 Qwika - similar:Anatolia
The Levant Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east.
However the word "Rumeli" literally translates as "the land of Romans" in reference to Eastern Roman Empire, and hence during the 11th and 12th century it was wid...
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 Ilion
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Walls of the excavated city of Troy This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer,and the location of an ancient city associated with it.
While such an identity is disputed, the site has been successfully identified with the city called Wilusa in Hittite texts; Ilion (which goesback to earlier Wilion with a digamma) is thought to be the Greek rendition ofthat name.
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 Troy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During the Bronze Age, the site seems to have been a flourishing mercantile city, since its location allowed for complete control of the Dardanelles, through which every merchant ship from the Aegean Sea heading for the Black Sea had to pass.
The last city on this site, Ilium or Ilion, was founded by Romans during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was an important trading city until the establishment of Constantinople in the fourth century as the eastern capital of the Roman Empire.
In Byzantine times the city declined gradually, and eventually disappeared.
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 Iliad Encyclopedia Article @ Gasped.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Many others (including Martin West and Richard Seaford) now prefer a date in the 7th or even the 6th century BC.
The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks (See Trojan War).
The word "Iliad" means "pertaining to Ilion" (in Latin, Ilium), the city proper, as opposed to Troy (in Greek, Τροία, Troía; in Latin, Troia), the state centered around Ilium, over which Priam reigned.
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 ilion - OneLook Dictionary Search
Ilion : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
ILION : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Ilion : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
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 Troy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Troy (Ancient Greek Τροία Troia, also Ίλιον Ilion; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
The story of the Trojans first began in myth and legend.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Troy contains research on
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 ilion - OneLook Dictionary Search
Ilion : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
ilion : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
Ilion : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com) [home, info]
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