Troad

American  

[troh-ad] / ˈtroʊ æd /

noun

1. The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.

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Example Sentences

Rhoeteo: Rhoeteum was a promontory of the Troad.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

Visitors to the Troad can, however, still see part of it in the northwest earth-wall opposite the Scæan Gate.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

From Sicily and even the Spanish coast to the Troad, southern Asia Minor, Cyprus and Palestine,—from the Nile valley to the mouth of the Po, very similar forms were now diffused.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

Thus, in the case of Apollo, mice were held sacred and were fed in his temples in the Troad and elsewhere, the people of Hamaxitus especially worshipping mice.*

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

Quite recently I came across a case in the Troad where I fell in with a young Greek who had been wasting for months with some permanent, indefinable fever.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen