Troad

American  

[troh-ad] / ˈtroʊ æd /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Hector was afterwards worshipped in the Troad by the Boeotian tribe Gephyraei, who offered sacrifices at his grave.

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Between Rhodes and the Troad Homer knows of but one city, Miletus—which is a Carian ally of Troy—and the mouth of one river, the Cayster.

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The Iliu Persis, again, was the oldest authority for the story of Laocoon and of the consequent escape of Aeneas—a story which connected a surviving branch of the house of Priam with the later inhabitants of the Troad.

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It contains the well-known prophecy that the descendants of Aeneas are to rule over the Trojans,—pointing to the existence of an Aenead dynasty in the Troad.

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Finally, they were to have visited the Troad, Syria, Egypt, and perhaps Nubia!

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