What did Mehmet the Conqueror say during his visit to Troy?

In Kristovulos' manuscripts, we find the following about Mehmet the Conqueror's visit...

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Where had Trojan War happened?

In the Iliad there are many details about place of the war, which should happened som...

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Will treasures of Troy return to Troy?

Heinrich Schliemann smuggled "Priamus' Treasure" that he found in 1873 out of Turkey....

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What did Ataturk think about Troy?

During the Balkan Wars that took place in 1912-1913, Mustafa Kemal came to the Dardan...

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From which year is the oldest Iliad copy we have?

There is no copy of the Iliad from 2700 years ago, when Homer transcribed it. The mai...

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What is the Peace of Troy?

Professor Osman Korfmann, who directed the Troy excavations from 1988 until his death...

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Did Mehmet the Conqueror have the Iliad in his library?

Historians note that Mehmet the Conqueror knew Greek very well. We know that he had t...

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Was Troy on the seaside?

The questions about the filling process of Trojan plain and how close was the sea to...

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How did Troy collapse?

After the Trojan city was founded around 3000's B.C.E., it is destroyed several times...

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How did the Iliad arrive to us?

There is nothing such an Iliad text before Homer. The Homer experts generally accept...

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Homer, the Iliad and Troy continue to influence the culture, art, science and literature of the world. Although the research history of this subject, in which literature, archaeology and history interconnect, reachs to a long past, not everything about this subject could be brought to the light. The number of questions about this enigmatic subject, which begins with a mythological story and then continues with numerous historical accounts, does not stop at 101, but could even extend to 1001. But we divided our subject to 10 sections, just like the 10 cities of Troy, and our aim here is to give our readers a clear explanation of the research done since the antiquity.

What is the magic behind this poet, this epic and this city, which has mesmerized people for thousands of years?
What part of the epic is real and what part is fiction? Is there really a place called Troy?
Were the unforgettable heroes of the war real persons?
Now with 101 questions and answers, we will give explanations to these and similar questions.

Sections
I. Homer
II. Iliad
III. Troy and The Trojans
IV. Troy and History of The Excavations
V. Trojan War
VI. Archaeology and Mythology
VII. Trojans and Hittites
VIII. Troy and Politics
IX. Troy and The Turks
X. Troy Nowadays
XI. Conclusions
XII. Bibliography