Troy, also called Ilion, is an ancient city in present day Canakkale Province in northwestern Turkey, in the region known as the Troad. It is best known as the setting of the Greek myth of the Trojan War and was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over roughly 4,000 years of settlement, leaving nine distinct archaeological layers; its location was unknown until Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann excavated the site from 1871, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone In the Other Atlases
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1. Troy (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
-3000-00-00T00:00:00Z
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 39.9575, longitude 26.238889
P2046 (area)
area 1.58 sq km
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 39.9575,26.2389
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 36.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.75, 26.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.75, 26.25
39.75 26.25 Csa
4. GeoNames: Kalafat - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 310824, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.3 km)Quote, cities500 record 310824, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.3 km)
39.94667 26.23306 P PPL TR 17 7732344 1061 23 Europe/Istanbul
Wikidata: Troy
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