Troy was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia (modern Turkey) that was inhabited from about 3500 bce until it faded into obscurity after the founding of Constantinople in 324 ce. Occupying a strategic position on trade routes connecting Europe and Asia, the city is most famous as the setting of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy memorialized in Homer’s Iliad. The ruins of the city were found by Heinrich Schliemann at the site of Hisarlık.
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