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TROAS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Troas was located on the NW side of Asia Minor. In the 8th century BC, the region was bounded by the Hellespont to the north, Phrygia to the NE, the Mt. Ida to the E, which was the boundary with Mysia, the Aegean Sea to the W and Aeolis to the S. The Scamander river flew through the ancient country. Troy was its capital.
ANDIRA (Ancient city) TROAS
Andeira (Andeira: Eth. Andeiranos), as it is written in Pliny (v.
32), a town of the Troad, the site of which is uncertain. There was a temple of
the Mother of the Gods here, whence she had the name Andeirene. (Steph. B. s.
v. Andeira.) As to the stone found here (Strab. p. 610), which, when burnt, becomes
iron, and as to the rest of this passage, the reader may consult the note in Groskurd's
translation of Strabo (vol. ii. p. 590).
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GERGITHA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gergis, Gergithus, Gergithes (Gerpsis, Gerpsithos, Gerpsithes: Eth.
Gerpsithios), a town in Troas, on the north of the river Scamnander, was inhabited,
according to Herodotus (v. 122, vii. 43), by descendants of the ancient Teucrians.
In the time of Xenophon (Hell. iii. 1. § 15) Gergis is called a strong place;
it had an acropolis and strong walls, and was one of the chief towns of the Dardanian
princess Mania. (Comp. Plut. Phoc. 18; Liv. xxxviii. 39; Strab. xiii. p. 589;
Plin. v. 32; Steph. B. s. v.; Athen. vi. p. 256, xii. p. 524.) King Attalus of
Pergamus transplanted the inhabitants of Gergis to a place near the sources of
the Caicus, whence we afterwards find a place called Gergetha or Gergithion, near
Larissa, in the territory of Cyme. (Strab. l. c. 616.) The old town of Gergis
was believed by some to have been the birthplace of the Sibyl, whence coins found
there have the image of the prophetess impressed upon them.
LARISSA (Ancient city) TROAS
A place on the coast of Troas, about 70 stadia south of Alexandria
Troas, and north of Hamaxitus. It was supposed that this Larissa was the one mentioned
by Homer (Il. ii. 841), but Strabo (xiii. p. 620) controverts this opinion, because
it is not far enough from Troy. (Comp. Steph. B. s. v.) The town is mentioned
as still existing by Thu cydides (viii. 101) and Xenophon (Hellen. iii 1. § 13;
comp. Scylax, p. 36; Strab. ix. p. 440, xiii. p. 604). Athenaeus (ii. p. 43) mentions
some hot springs near Larissa in Troas, which are still known to exist a little
above the site of Alexandria Troas.
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OFRYNION (Ancient city) TROAS
Ophrynium (Ophruneion), a small town in the north of Troas, near lake
Pteleos, and between Dardanus and Rhoeteum, with a grave sacred to Ajax. (Herod.
vii. 43; Xenoph. Anab. vii. 8. § 5, where it is called Ophrunion; Strab. xiii.
p. 595.) It is probably the modern Fren-Kevi. (Comp. Rasche, Lexic. Rei Num. iii.
2. p. 136.)
RITION (Ancient city) TROAS
Rhoeteum (to Hpoiteion or Rhoition akron), a promontory, or rather
a rocky headland, running out in several points in Mysia or Troas, at the entrance
of the Hellespont, north of Ilion; it contained a small town of the same name
situated on an eminence. The place is very often mentioned by the ancients. (Herod.
vii. 43 ; Scylax, p. 35 ; Strab. xiii. p. 595; Steph. B. s. v.; Pomp. Mela, i.
18; Plin. v. 33; Thucyd. iv. 52, viii. 101; Apollon. Rhod. i. 929; Tryphiod. 216;
Virg. Aen. vi. 595; Liv. xxxvii. 37.) The promontory is now called Intepeh, and
the site of the ancient town is believed to be occupied by Paleo Castro, near
the village of It-ghelmes. (Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 475; Leake, Asia Minor, p.
275.)
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SIGION (Ancient city) TROAS
Sigeum (Sigeion or he Sigeias akra), a promontory in Troas, forming
the north-western extremity of Asia Minor, at the entrance of the Hellespont,
and opposite the town of Elaeus, in the Thracian Chersonesus. Near it the naval
camp of the Greeks was said to have been formed during the Trojan War. (Herod.
v. 65, 94; Thucyd. viii. 101; Strab. xiii. pp. 595, 603; Pomp. Mela, i. 18; Plin.
v. 33; Ptol. v. 2. § 3; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 312.) This promontory is now called
Yenisheri.
Near the promontory was situated the town of Sigeum, which is said
to have been an Aeolian colony, founded under the guidance of Archaeanax. of Mytilene,
who used the stones of ancient Troy in building this new place. But some years
later the Athenians sent troops under Phrynon and expelled the Mytileneans; and
this act of violence led to a war between the two cities, which lasted for a long
time, and was conducted with varying success. Pittacus, the wise Mytilenean, is
said to have slain Phrynon in single combat. The poet Alcaeus also was engaged
in one of the actions. The dispute was at length referred to Periander, of Corinth,
who decided in favour of the Athenians. (Strab. xiii. p. 599; Herod. v. 95; Steph.
B. s. v.; Diog. Laert. i. 74.) Henceforth we find the Pisistratidae in possession
of Sigeum, and Hippias, after being expelled from Athens, is known to have retired
there with his family. (Herod. v. 65). The town of Sigeum was destroyed by the
inhabitants of Ilium soon after the overthrow of the Persian empire, so that in
Strabo's time it no longer existed. (Strab. xiii. p. 600; Plin. v. 33.) A hill
near Sigeum, forming a part of the promontory, was believed in antiquity to contain
the remains of Achilles, which was looked upon with such veneration that gradually
a small town seems to have risen around it, under the name of Achilleum. This
tomb, which was visited by Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Germanicus,
is still visible in the form of a mound or tumulus.
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TROAS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Troie, Troia (or Ilias ge). The territory ruled over by the ancient
kings of Troy or Ilium, which retained its ancient and venerable name even at
a time when the kingdom to which it had originally belonged had long ceased to
exist. Homer himself nowhere describes, the extent of Troas or its frontiers,
and even leaves us in the dark, as to how far the neighbouring allies of the Trojans,
such as the Dardanians, who were governed by princes of their own, of the family
of Priam, were true allies or subjects of the king of Ilium. In later times, Troas
was a part of Mysia, comprising the coast district on the Aegean from Cape Lectum
to the neighbourhood of Dardanus and Abydus on the Hellespont; while inland it
extended about 8 geographical miles, that is, as far as Mount Ida, so as to embrace
the south coast of Mysia opposite the island of Lesbos, together with the towns
of Assus and Antandrus. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 544; Herod. vii. 42.) Strabo, from his
well-known inclination to magnify the empire of Troy, describes it as extending
from the Aesepus to the Caicus, and his view is adopted by the Scholiast on Apollonius
Rhodius (i. 1115). In its proper and more limited sense, however, Troas was an
undulating plain, traversed by the terminal branches of Ida running out in a north-western
direction, and by the small rivers Satniois, Scamander, Simois, and Thymbrius.
This plain gradually rises towards Mount Ida, and contained, at least in later
times, several flourishing towns. In the Iliad we hear indeed of several towns,
and Achilles boasts (Il. ix. 328) of having destroyed eleven in the territory
of Troy; but they can at best only have been very small places, perhaps only open
villages. That Ilium itself must have been far superior in strength and population
is evident from the whole course of events; it was protected by strong walls,
and had its acropolis.
The inhabitants of Troas, called Troes (Troes), and by Roman prose-writers
Trojani or Teucri, were in all probability a Pelasgian race, and seem to have
consisted of two branches, one of which, the Teucri, had emigrated from Thrace,
and become amalgamated with the Phrygian or native population of the country.
Hence the Trojans are sometimes called Teucri and sometimes Phryges. (Herod. v.
122, vii. 43; Strab. i. p. 62, xiii. p. 604; Virg. Aen. i. 38, 248, ii. 252, 571,
&c.) The poet of the Iliad in several points treats, the Trojans as inferior in
civilisation to his own countrymen; but it is impossible to say whether in such
cases he describes the real state of things, or whether ther he does so only from
a natural partiality for his own countrymen.
According to the common legend, the kingdom of Troy was overturned
at the capture and burning Ilium in B.C. 1184; but it is attested on pretty good
authority that a Trojan state survived the catastrophe of its chief city, and
that the kingdom was finally destroyed by an invasion of Phrygians who crossed
over from Europe into Asia. (Xanthus, ap. Strab. xiv. p. 680, xii. p. 572.) This
fact is indirectly confimed by the testimony of Homer himself, who makes Poseidon
predict that the posterity of Aeneas should long continue to reign over the Trojans,
after the race of Priam should be extinct.
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ZELIA (Ancient city) TROAS
A town of Troas, at the foot of Mount Ida and on the banks of the
river Aesepus, at a distance of 80 stadia from its mouth. It is mentioned by Homer
(Il. ii. 824, iii. 103), who calls it a holy town. (Comp. Strab. xii. p. 565,
xiii. pp. 585, 587, 603; Steph. B. s. v.) Arrian (Anab. i. 13) mentions it as
the head-quarters of the Persian army before the battle of the Granicus: it existed
in the time of Strabo; but afterwards it disappears. Some travellers have identified
it with the modern Biga, between Bozaegee and Sorricui.
LARISSA (Ancient city) TROAS
An ancient city on the coast of the Troad.
TROAS (Ancient country) TURKEY
(Troas, sc. chora). Now Chan; the territory of Ilium or Troy,
forming the northwestern part of Mysia. It was bounded on the west by the Aegaean
Sea, from the Promontorium Lectum to the Promontorium Sigeum at the entrance of
the Hellespont; on the northwest by the Hellespont, as far as the river Rhodius,
below Abydus; on the northeast and east by the mountains which border the valley
of the Rhodius, and extend from its sources southwards to the main ridge of Mount
Ida, and on the south by the northern coast of the Gulf of Adramyttium along the
southern foot of Ida; but on the northeast and east the boundary is sometimes
extended so far as to include the whole coast of the Hellespont and part of the
Propontis, and the country as far as the river Granicus, thus embracing the district
of Dardania, and somewhat more. Strabo extends the boundary still further east,
to the river Aesopus, and also south to the Caicus; but this clearly results from
his including in the territory of Troy that of her neighbouring allies. The Troad
is for the most part mountainous, being intersected by Mount Ida and its branches:
the largest plain is that in which Troy stood. The chief rivers were the Satnois
on the south, the Rhodius on the north, and the Scamander (Mendere) with its affluent
the Simois (Dombrek) in the centre.
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ZELIA (Ancient city) TROAS
An ancient city of Mysia, at the foot of Mount Ida, and on the river Aesopus, eighty stadia from its mouth, belonging to the territory of Cyzicus. It was the headquarters of the Persian army at the time of Alexander's invasion.
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