Where is Troy?

The last city, built by the Romans, declined gradually in late antiquity and by the early Byzantine times disappeared and eventually forgotten. But the name Troy continued to live in the region. The western travellers, who visited the region, wrongly identified Troy with Alexandria Troas. This wrong localisation continued around 100 years. In 1785, Jean Baptiste le Chevalier argued that Homer's Troy should be sought at Pınarbaşı on the Ballı Dağ.

in 1822 Charles Maclaren reviewed the available material and published A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy. He argued that Homers Troy must have lain at Hisarlık. Maclaren reviwed his thesis in his Plain of Troy Described in 1863 and finally convinced Frank Calvert, the Englsh consul living in Çanakkale, that Homer's Troy is in Hisarlık. Frank made extensive surveys in the region and published his papers in scholarly journals, arguing that Hissarlık is the ancient Troy. But the fame for finding the walls of Homers Troy went to Heinrich Schliemann.