Ancient site· Ezine, Çanakkale
Akhilleion (Troas)
Akhilleion (Troas) is a ancient site in Ezine, Çanakkale; Achilleion was an ancient Greek city in the southwest of the Biga Peninsula in Anatolia, on the cape known as Beşika, about 2 km south of present-day Yeniköy in the Ezine district of Çanakkale.
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- 39.9150°N · 26.1525°E
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Achilleion was an ancient Greek city in the southwest of the Biga Peninsula in Anatolia, on the cape known as Beşika, about 2 km south of present-day Yeniköy in the Ezine district of Çanakkale. The place regarded in classical antiquity as the tomb of Achilles lies a short distance from a tumulus known as Beşiktepe.
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- Architectural remains from antiquity
- The layered history of Anatolian civilizations
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An ancient Greek city on Beşika Point, 2 km south of Yeniköy in Ezine, Çanakkale, and about 8 km south of Sigeion. It takes its name from Achilles and stands a short walk from the Beşiktepe tumulus, which classical antiquity took for the hero's tomb. The city is first mentioned as the fortified base from which Mytilene attacked Athenian-held Sigeion in the early sixth century BC; its walls were built with stone the Mytileneans took from the ruins of Troy. When King Lysimachus merged it into Ilion, its political independence effectively ended.
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Did you know
- Patroclus's grave was believed to be here as well.
- Some sources say Alexander sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles when he passed through Ilion in 334 BC; in AD 216 the emperor Caracalla imitated him by holding funeral games around it.
- The city appears in the Athenian tribute lists of 425/4 and 422/1 BC as a member of the Delian League, and struck its own bronze coins marked AX around 350-300 BC.
- Demetrius of Scepsis reports a small village still called Achilleion in the mid-second century BC; the latest pottery from the site belongs to that period.
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