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Troy
     
Troy
according to ancient Greek stories, a city in Asia Minor (=modern Turkey) which the Greeks eventually gained control of in the Trojan War. In the 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann, a German archaeologist discovered the ruins of an ancient city in northwest Turkey, which he claimed was Troy.
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