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A new city called Ilium (from Greek Ilion) was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople , which became a bishopric in the Roman province Hellespontus (civil Diocese of Asia ), but declined gradually in the Byzantine era .
Ilium or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον), also known as Troja (Τροΐα), [1] was a city of ancient Epirus. [2] It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia. [3] Its site is located near the modern village of Despotiko in Greece. [4] [5] The village was formerly known as ...
Nexus Mods is a website that hosts computer game mods and other user-created content related to video game modding. It is one of the largest gaming mod sites on the web, [ 2 ] with 30 million registered members and 3146 supported games as of October 2024, with a single forum and a wiki for site- and mod-related topics.
Ilion (Ἴλιον) or (Latinized) Ilium, an Archaic name for the pre-classical city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad, also a Byzantine city and bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Ilium; Ilion, Greece, a suburb of Athens, Greece, also known as Nea Liosia; Ilium (Epirus), ancient city of Epirus, Greece
Ilium (band), a metal band from Australia; Ilium, a 2003 novel by Dan Simmons; Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut), a fictional New York town in many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels; Illium, a fictional location in the video game Mass Effect 2
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The Iliupersis (Greek: Ἰλίου πέρσις, Ilíou pérsis, lit. ' Sack of Ilium '), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature.It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse.
Wilkens argues that Troy was located in England on the Gog Magog Hills in Cambridgeshire, and that the city of Ely refers to Ilium, another name for Troy. He believes that Celts living there were attacked around 1200 BC by fellow Celts from the European continent to battle over access to the tin mines in Cornwall as tin was a very important component for the production of bronze.