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The 12 pages that link to Troy, each with the reason it gives.

• HomerBroader topic: Archaeology at Troy bears on how the poem’s war setting relates to historical places and events.

• AnatoliaBroader topic: Its location made it a prominent settlement between the Aegean and inland Anatolia.

• Hittite EmpireRelated: Hittite texts may refer to Wilusa, a polity often associated with the region of Troy.

• Late Bronze Age collapseRelated: Its Late Bronze Age layers show destruction and continuity, illustrating the region’s varied outcomes.

• Homeric questionRelated: Its archaeological remains inform arguments about the historical background of the poems.

• Trojan WarBroader topic: The legendary siege is set at this city, whose archaeological layers span the Bronze Age.

• DardanellesRelated: Its location made the strait a landmark in the region’s ancient history.

• SmyrnaCompared with: Troy’s epic fame contrasts with Smyrna’s chiefly civic, commercial, and later Christian historical record.

• Homeric epicsRelated: Archaeology confirms a long-lived settlement there, not the epic’s full account of its war.

• Heinrich SchliemannBroader topic: Schliemann’s Troy excavations sought the city described in Homer’s Iliad.

• Carl BlegenRelated: Blegen’s excavations distinguished successive settlement layers and identified a likely Late Bronze Age citadel.

• Istanbul Archaeology MuseumsRelated: Objects from Troy connect the museum’s holdings to early archaeological work in Anatolia.