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Troad
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Troad
The
Troad
( or ) or
Troas
is the historical name of the
Biga
peninsula (
modern Turkish
:
Biga Yarimadasi
, ) in the northwestern part of
Anatolia
,
Turkey
. This region now is part of the
Çanakkale
province
of
Turkey
. Bounded by the
Dardanelles
to the northwest, by the
Aegean Sea
to the west and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the
massif
that forms
Mount Ida
, the Troad is drained by two main
rivers
, the
Scamander
(
Karamenderes
) and the
Simois
, which join at the area containing the
ruins
of
Troy
.
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