Homers çanakkale

Canakkale where i live is 300 km away from istanbul and has coast to bosphorus sea and is especially known with ancient city of troy which is most well known from homer s illiad describing the trojan wars and siege of the city.

Homers çanakkale. The archaeological site lies approximately 6 5 kilometres 4 0 mi from the aegean sea and about the same distance from the dardanelles. çanakkale s military museum sits in a park facing the gallipoli peninsula across the dardanelles strait where world war i s allied attack on turkish forces played out. Pretty much everyone knows the story of ancient troy if not from homer s classic poems iliad and odyssey then from the 2004 movie starring brad pitt and orlando bloom. Legendary troy the new troy museum half day.

What you might not know is that troy was a real city and is now a massive archaeological excavation site in turkey s çanakkale province. Homeric troy refers primarily to the city described in the iliad one of the earliest literary works in europe this is a long originally oral poem in its own dialect of ancient greek in dactylic hexameter in tradition composed by a blind poet of the anatolian greek coast homer it covers the 10th year of a war against troy conducted by a coalition of achaean or greek states under the. The park is scattered with old military equipment and the ottoman building inside the park has interesting exhibits explaining the gallipoli campaign. According to greek mythology the achaeans greeks waged war against the city at the end of a ten year siege.

çanakkale is a safe city having a cozy atmosphere where you can see and experience lots of sports and art events. So does that mean the famous story is true. Discover the ancient city of troy. Up to 4 5 hours an ancient city with an epic story to tell both from homer s iliad and the 19th century when it was unearthed by german archaeologist schliemann.

As per the archaeological excavations there had been 9 periods of settlement starting from the 3 000 b c. Homer immortalized troy truva and the characters of king priam hector pans and helen through his legendary depiction in the iliad. Twenty nine kilometres south of çanakkale is the ancient city of troy troya or truva in a location now known as hisarlık place of fortresses. The battle of canakkale or the gallipoli war 1915 took place during the first world war.

Canakkale is one of the unigue city of turkey both archeological and ethnographical great past situated in the northwest of the country and a gateway between europe and asia which was founded on two continents. Hisarlık place of fortresses often spelled hissarlik is the turkish name for an ancient city located in what is known historically as anatolia turkish anadolu.