Troas or The Troad is the historical name of the Biga peninsula (modern Turkish: Biga Yarımadası) in the northwestern part of Anatolia,Turkey. A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, Regions, and Themes Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches This region now is part of the Çanakkale province of Turkey. Çanakkale is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country Turkey is divided into 81 provinces called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Bounded by the Dardanelles to the northwest, by the Aegean Sea to the west and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the massif that forms Mount Ida, the Troad is drained by two main rivers, the Scamander (Karamenderes) and the Simois, which join at the area containing the ruins of Troy. See also [[Hellespont]] The Dardanelles ( Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı Greek: Δαρδανέλλια Dardanellia) formerly Etymology In ancient times there were various explanations for the name Aegean. In Geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or Flexures In the movement of the crust, a massif Mount Ida, Turkish Kazdağı (pronounced, with a meaning of "Goose Mountain" Kaz Dağları, or Karataş Tepesi, is a mountain in "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there In Greek mythology, Scamander ( Skamandros) was a river god son of Oceanus and Tethys according to Hesiod. Karamenderes is the modern name of the river Scamander, along the lower course of which according to the Iliad, the battles of the Trojan War were fought Simoeis was a river of the Trojan plain and the name of its god This article is about ruins in Architecture; for other meanings see Ruins (disambiguation. Troy ( Greek: grc Τροία Troia, also, Ilion; Latin: Trōia, Īlium, Hittite: Wilusa or Grenikos, Kebren, Simoeis, Rhesos, Rhodios, Heptaporos and Aisepos were seven rivers of the Troad and the names of the river gods that inhabited each river.

Contents 1 History 2 In the New Testament 3 See also 4 External links 5 Notes 6 Bibliography

History

The region later known as the Troad was called Wilusa by the Hittites. Wilusa (URU Wi-lu-ša) was a city of the late Bronze Age Assuwa confederation of western Anatolia The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established This identification was first put forth by Emil Forrer, but largely disputed by most Hittite experts until 1983 when Houwink ten Cate showed that two fragments were from the same original cuneiform tablet and in his discussion of the restored letter showed that Wilusa was correctly placed in northwestern Anatolia. Emil Orcitirix Gustav Forrer (1894&ndash1986 was a Swiss Assyriologist and Hittitologist. According to Trevor Bryce, Hittite texts indicate a number of Ahhiyawan raids on Wilusa during the 13th century BC, which may have resulted with the overthrow of king Walmu. Trevor Robert Bryce (born 1940 is a Hittitologist specializing in ancient and classical Near-eastern history Walmu was an early king of Wilusa, later Troas.

Bryce also reports that archeological surveys conducted by John Bintliff in the 1970s show that a powerful kingdom that held sway over northwestern Anatolia was based at Troy.

The kings of Pergamum (now Bergama) later ceded the territory of the Troad to the Roman Republic. Bergama ( Pargauma /PergamosPeople of High City refers to a city and its surrounding district in İzmir Province, in the Aegean Region of the The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the Under the Empire, the territory of the Troad became part of the province of Asia; under the later Byzantine Empire, it was included in the thema of the Aegean Islands. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial The Roman province of Asia, also called Phrygia was an administrative unit added to the late Republic. Following its conquest by the Ottoman Empire, the Troad formed part of the sanjak of Biga. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Sanjak and Sandjak (other variants sinjaq sanjaq) are the most common English transcriptions of the Turkish word sancak

In the New Testament

New Testament writings refer to this as Troas, and it is thought to be the home of Luke, writer of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke the Evangelist ( Hebrew: לוּקָֻא Greek: Loukás) was an early Christian leader who is said by tradition to be the author of The Gospel of Luke (Gk Κατά Λουκάν Ευαγγέλιον) is a synoptic Gospel, and is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. Evidence of this is that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels, until they get to the Troad, where he switches to the first person plural. The "we" section of Acts continues until the group returns to Troas, where his writing goes back to the third person. This change happens again the second time the group gets to Troas. There are three "we" sections in Acts, all following this rule. ^[1] Luke never stated, however, that he lived in Troas, and this is the only evidence that he did.

Paul himself also refers to Troas, when he asks his fellow worker Timothy out of Ephesus, to get his coat there. Paul the apostle (שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi, meaning " Saul of Tarsus " Σαούλ Saul and Σαῦλος Saulos and For other uses of "Timothy" see Timothy (disambiguation. Ephesus ( Hittite Apasa; Ancient Greek; Turkish Efes) was a city of ancient Anatolia. ^[2] This was a journey of about 500km.

See also

• Alexandria Troas
• List of traditional Greek place names

External links

• Coinage of Ancient Troas

Notes

Bibliography

• Trevor R. Bryce. Trevor Robert Bryce (born 1940 is a Hittitologist specializing in ancient and classical Near-eastern history Chapter 14, "The Trojan War: Myth or Reality" in The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-924010-8

Historical regions of Anatolia
Aeolis | Cappadocia | Caria | Cilicia | Bithynia | Galatia | Ionia | Lycaonia | Lycia | Lydia | Mysia | Pamphylia | Paphlagonia | Phrygia | Pisidia | Pontos | Troad

Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black Alternative meaning the Aeolis region of Mars. Geography Aeolis was an ancient district on the western coast of Asia Minor Cappadocia (or Capadocia, Turkish Kapadokya, from Greek: Καππαδοκία / Kappadokía which in turn is from the Persian: Municipalities of Caria Cramer's detailed catalog of Carian towns in Classical Greece is based entirely on ancient sources Geography Cilicia extended along the Aegean coast east from Pamphylia, to Mount Amanus ( Gavurdağı Mount) which separated it from Syria Description Several major cities sat on the fertile shores of the Propontis (which is now known as Sea of Marmara) Nicomedia, Chalcedon, Cius Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Geography Physical Ionia was of small extent not exceeding 90 geographical miles in length from north to south with a breadth varying from 40 to 55 miles but to this In ancient geography Lycaonia was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor, north of Mount Taurus. "Sidyma" redirects here For the Moth Genus named thus see Sidyma (moth. Defining Lydia Aside from a legend related by Herodotus, who states that the name Lydia came from king Lydus at the time of the fall of Troy Mysia (Μυσία was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor or Anatolia (part of modern Turkey) Origins of the Pamphylians There can be little doubt that the Pamphylians and Pisidians were the same people though the former had received colonies from Greece and other Geography The greater part of Paphlagonia is a rugged mountainous country but it contains fertile valleys and produces a great abundance of hazelnuts and fruit – particularly plums In antiquity Phrygia (Φρυγία was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. Geography Although close to Mediterranean Sea on the map the warm climate of the south cannot pass the height of the Taurus Mountains. Geography The Black Sea region loosely called Pontus by various scholars has a steep rocky coast with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges

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