The Troad (/ˈtroʊˌæd/ or /ˈtroʊəd/; Greek: Τρωάδα, Troáda) or Troas (/ˈtroʊəs/; Ancient Greek: Τρῳάς, Trōiás or Τρωϊάς, Trōïás) is a historical region...
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Dardanians (Trojan) (redirect from Dardanians (Troad))
modern terms being Dardanians or Dardans) were a legendary people of the Troad, located in northwestern Anatolia. The Dardanoi were the descendants of...
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Latin: Achilleum) was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. It has been located on a promontory known as Beşika...
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dynasts during a campaign which rolled back Persian influence throughout the Troad. Ilion remained outside the control of the Persian satrapal administration...
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Cebrene (redirect from Antiochia in Troad)
Skamander valley in the Troad region of Anatolia. According to some scholars, the city's name was changed to Antiocheia in the Troad (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια...
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Abarbarea (naiad) (redirect from Abarbarea of Troad)
In Greek mythology, Abarbarea (Ancient Greek: Ἀβαρβαρέη, romanized: Abarbaree, lit. 'unmuddy') was a naiad nymph of the meadows of the Aesepus River, her...
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Thebe Hypoplakia, a mythological city in the Trojan Cilicia, near the Troad Thebes, Illinois, a village in the United States Thebe (disambiguation)...
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thought to have been written by Euripides Rhesus (river), a river of the Troad mentioned by Homer Rhesus macaque, also known as the rhesus monkey Rhesus...
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Opsikion (redirect from Medieval troad)
The Opsician Theme (Greek: θέμα Ὀψικίου, thema Opsikiou) or simply Opsikion (Greek: [θέμα] Ὀψίκιον, from Latin: Obsequium) was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian...
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Dardanus (city) (redirect from Dardania (Troad))
form; Greek: Δάρδανον, Dardanon, the neuter) was an ancient city in the Troad. It was sometimes called Dardania (Greek: Δαρδανία, Dardania, neuter plural...
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Roman and Byzantine province in the Balkans Dardania (Troad), a city and a district of the Troad, in Asia Minor on the Hellespont (the modern Dardanelles)...
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romanized: Larissa), was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the...
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Gordus (redirect from Gordos (Troad))
Gordus may refer to: Gordus (Lydia) Gordus (Troad) Corinth (Turkish: Gördüs) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
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the ancient city of Troy, which (together with the ancient region of the Troad) is also located inside Çanakkale Province. The wooden horse from the 2004...
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She was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, and Zacynthus. A hill in the Troad and the town Bateia were named after her. Batia's father was the ruler of...
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the land that would eventually be called Dardania (and later still the Troad) was known as Teucria and the inhabitants as Teucrians, after Teucer. According...
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Mount Ida (Turkey) (redirect from Gergis, Troad)
Mount Ida (Turkish: Kazdağı, pronounced [kazdaɯ], meaning "Goose Mountain", Kaz Dağları, or Karataş Tepesi, Greek: Ίδα) is a mountain in northwestern Turkey...
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(Πολίχνα), was a small town in the upper valley of the Aesepus in the ancient Troad. Its site is unlocated. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p.603. Page numbers...
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The Achaeans buried him as a god on the Thracian peninsula, across the Troäd. After Protesilaus' death, his brother, Podarces, took command of his troops...
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Cenchreae or Kenchreai (Ancient Greek: Κεγχρεαί) was a city of the ancient Troad. According to Stephanus of Byzantium, the city was that "in which Homer...
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(Turkish: Gelibolu) are sparsely settled, while the southern shores along the Troad peninsula (Turkish: Biga) are inhabited by the city of Çanakkale's urban...
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Smintheus), "Sminthian"—that is, "of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe" near the Troad town of Hamaxitus Napaian Apollo (Ἀπόλλων Ναπαῖος), from the city of Nape...
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Idaea (mother of King Teucer) (redirect from Idaea of Troad)
who lives on Ida') was a nymph, presumably of Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). She was the wife of the...
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Aianteion (Ancient Greek: Αἰάντειον) was a town in ancient Troad. Its name is translated as "of Ajax" Its site is located near Kumkale, Asiatic Turkey...
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(Ἰδαῖος), of mount Ida. Either Mount Ida in Crete or Mount Ida in the ancient Troad Ikmaios (Ικμαιος; "of Moisture") or Latinized Icmaeus Ithomatas (Ιθωμάτας)...
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disagreements since ancient times, some sources suggesting a site in the Troad self and others pointing at the very similar name of the ancient site of...
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was the founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad. Dardanus, a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, was a significant figure...
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Corfu, Athens, Egypt, Brindisi and others, but he mostly stayed in the Troad, the region of Asia Minor believed to have been under Trojan rule. At the...
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also daughter of the seer Merops of Percote Arisba, an ancient city in the Troad Arisba (Lesbos), an ancient town on Lesbos arisbe, a species of owl butterflies...
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Cappadocia Caria Corduene Chaldia Doris Lycaonia Lycia Lydia Galatia Pisidia Pontus Mysia Arzawa Speri Sophene Biga Peninsula Troad Tuwana Alpide belt...
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