Troas (redirected from Troad)

Troas (trō`ăs) or the Troad (trō`ăd), region about ancient Troy, on the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in present NW Turkey. Traversed by Mt. Ida (Kaz Daği) and strategically located on the Hellespont (Dardanelles), it was involved in various struggles to control the straits. Troas was the scene of the events of the Iliad and was an ancient center of Aegean civilization. The region has yielded to archaeologists a wealth of antiquities. For the Troas of the Bible, see Alexandria Troas.

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Troas

 or the Troad

Ancient region surrounding the city of Troy. It consisted mainly of the northwestern projection of Anatolia into the Aegean Sea. It extended from the Gulf of Edremit to the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles and from the Ida mountain range to the Aegean. St. Paul visited the region on his missionary journeys.

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Troas

the region of NW Asia Minor surrounding the ancient city of Troy

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Troas 

(the Troad), an ancient region in northwestern Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), bounded on the east by Mount Ida and its spurs. In the third millennium B.C., the tribes that settled in the region, finding the fertile Troas plain conducive to their development, established the kingdom of Troy, which flourished until its destruction during the Trojan War, circa 1260 B.C. Troas subsequently suffered a series of invasions—by the Lydians in the seventh century B.C., the Persians in the mid-sixth century B.C., and the Greeks, under Alexander the Great, in 334 B.C. From the third to the second century B.C., Troas was part of Pergamum. In 133 B.C. it became part of the Roman province of Asia.