# Is there still controversy over the exact location of ancient Troy?

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**Created:** [November 3, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-controversy-over-the-exact-location-of-ancient-troy/672972 "2013-11-03T07:53:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-controversy-over-the-exact-location-of-ancient-troy/672972/1 "2013-11-03T07:53:36Z")

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Hi,

I was very surprised to hear that there is still controversy over the exact location of ancient Troy. I always assumned it was Illium in Turkey/Hissarlik?Can anyone tell me if there has been any consensus on its true location?  
I look forward to your feedback.  
davidmich

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**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-controversy-over-the-exact-location-of-ancient-troy/672972/2 "2013-11-03T08:29:22Z")

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> [@davidmich](#):
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> Hi,
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> I was very surprised to hear that there is still controversy over the exact location of ancient Troy. I always assumned it was Illium in Turkey/Hissarlik?Can anyone tell me if there has been any consensus on its true location?  
> I look forward to your feedback.  
> davidmich

It’s been a while since I read up on it, but, IIRC, there was always room for doubt. What we have now is a kingdom, kind of, and it may have been Troy. Nobody has ever decisively proven that it wasn’t Troy, so, we’re going with that.

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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-controversy-over-the-exact-location-of-ancient-troy/672972/3 "2013-11-03T09:18:13Z")

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This from Wikipedia:

> **[Troy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy)**
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> Troy (Greek: Τροία, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 Truwiša/Taruiša) or Ilion (Greek: Ίλιον, Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭 Wiluša)\[a\] was an ancient city and archaeological site located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War.
> Troy was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt during its 4000 years of occupation. As a result, the site is divided into nine archaeological layers, each corresponding to a city built on the ruins of the previous. Archaeologists refer to these...

“Today, the hill at Hisarlik has given its name to a small village near the ruins, supporting the tourist trade visiting the Troia archaeological site.[7] It lies within the province of Çanakkale, some 30 km south-west of the provincial capital, also called Çanakkale. The nearest village is Tevfikiye. The map here shows the adapted Scamander estuary with Ilium a little way inland across the Homeric plain.  
Troia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.”

“lthough it is widely believed that Heinrich Schliemann was responsible for starting archaeology on his own with the discovery of Troy, this is inaccurate. Schliemann became interested in digging at the mound of Hisarlık at the persuasion of Frank Calvert. The British diplomat, considered a pioneer for the contributions he made to the archaeology of Troy, spent more than 60 years in the Troad (modern day Biga peninsula, Turkey) conducting field work.[60] As a principal authority on field archaeology in the region, Calvert’s findings supplied evidence that Homeric Troy might exist in the hill, playing a major role in directing Heinrich Schliemann to dig at the Hisarlık.[61]”

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**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-controversy-over-the-exact-location-of-ancient-troy/672972/4 "2013-11-03T12:06:22Z")

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It was in [Camridgeshire](http://qi.com/infocloud/trojan-war).