Where is Troy located?

Troy city site

The city of Troy is known by its Greek name, Troia, and this city is located in the Turkish state, specifically an area known as Anatolia, where it overlooks the sea.

events that took place in Troy

The fame of this city came through the famous story of its siege, and the giant wooden horse in which the Spartan army hid, as they infiltrated through it at night to occupy the city, and subdued the army of King Menelaus of Sparta, where his brother, the army commander, was deceived, as their occupation of this city lasted for nearly ten years. The first city of Troy was destroyed as a result of a fire that broke out in it, and it was a small village in which a clan or tribe lived in a small number, and it was bordered by fortified and solid walls, but the people of this city restored and rebuilt it again after 500 years, and they also expanded it And re-raising its walls again, and building the strong gates, but it was re-burned by the enemies and destroyed for a second time, and although the people of this city remained in it despite its ruin and destruction, their lives were miserable, as it was full of dirt and slums, and the waste filled the houses, so the owners of the houses worked To increase the height of the ceilings so that dirt does not reach them.

In the year 1200 BC, other peoples came to this city and rebuilt it, and built its main castle, so they surrounded it with impregnable walls that take a beautiful shape in reconstruction, and they, according to history books, were cousins ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbof Greece, but a very strong earthquake hit it. Its walls were completely destroyed, and after the next decades, its surviving people rebuilt it again, but it came in the form of small-sized huts close together, and its people were famous for storing wine and oil also in huge jars, each of which reached a height of about two meters. However, the war was ignited between the people of Troy and the Greeks, to be completely destroyed as a result of a huge fire that broke out again, and the king and his son died in it.

After less than a hundred years, that is, in the year 1100 BC, the rest of its people re-pruned and improved it, but their enemies from the displaced barbarians who came to it from Central Europe made this city completely deserted for a long period of time, then in the year 700 BC it was established on Basically it is home to Greece, but it only lasted for two centuries.

The year 100 BC did not come but this city was rebuilt by the Romans, who claim their descent from this city, and in order to build an ideal city, they destroyed the remaining aspects of the ancient city, so that the ancient features of Troy would completely disappear, and this city fell upon the fall of their Roman empires to be lost. Thus all the features of this and ancient Troy as well.