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By Jorge Láscar from Australia - Troy (and a trojan horse), CC BY 2.0 The city of Troy was a major center of trade and commerce during the Bronze Age. It was located on the northwest coast of modern-day Turkey, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, a strategic waterway that connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea . It was strategically located on a hill overlooking the surrounding plains, which made it a natural defensive position.  Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey. In Classical Greek , the city was referred to as both Troia (Τροία) and Ilion (Ἴλιον) or Ilios (Ἴλιος). It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer . Troia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998. Troy was  protected by a series of walls and gates , which was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt ...