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Troia ruins 30 km. to the south, approximately 4.5 km from the coast. The ancient city was declared as a National Park in 1996 and in 1998 it was included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Troia, MS from 3,000 BC. It is a city with up to 500 settlements. 10 different city layers and more than 50 building phases were identified during the excavations. In a nutshell:

Troia I-III Coastal Troia Culture (3000-2100 BC)
Troia IV-V Troia Culture with Anatolian Character (MÖ.2100-1700)
Troia VI-VII High Troia Culture (BC.1700-1100)
Troia VIII Greek Settlement (BC.700-85)
Troia IX Roman Settlements (ca.85-MS.500)
Troia X Byzantine settlement from the 12th century to the 13th century.
The importance of Troia is that Homer was the scene of the Trojan War that he described in the Iliad Epic. The Epic of Iliad includes a small part of the myth of the Trojan War. Ruins among the ruins; walls, a temple, an entrance section and a megaron style building consisting of the main room at the rear, pipes belonging to the sewerage system and public buildings such as odeon.

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