What happened after Trojan War?

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Vase painting portraying Aeneas, his father Anchises on his shoulder, going to the West (5th century B.C.E.)
The city of Troy/Wilusa falls around 1180's B.C.E. This happened with a result of a war (Trojan War). During the period of transition of Troy VIj (=Troy VIIb1; around 1180-1150 B.C.E., transition to Early Bronz Age), both old traditions are sustained and some new simple elements are developed. The settlement is most probably taken over from another relative culture. After hunderds of years of the use of potter's wheel, the increase in hand made pottery is interesting. Rebuilding the city from its historical essence, is made from a "lower class of people" who think themselves still as "Trojan". Hittitean resources were silence since 1195-90 В.С.Е., and because of that the end of the other settlements after the war are not known. In some ancient resources, there is a connection between Priamos and Phrygians. According to these resources, Priamos, when he was young, was an ally of them; he took his wife Hekabe from them. Later the Phrgians became the ally of Troy and even after the defeat in Trojan War, they took over the the heritage of Priamos. This view is not proved archeologically but still discussed widely among the experts. On the other hand, independent from Homer, the Lydean historian Ksanthos wrote (5th century B.C.E.) that the Phrygians immigrated after Trojan war to Anatolia and merged with the population there.

According to the epic of Aeneas of Virgil, the poet from Roman period, Aeneas is one of the last Trojans, who took his father to his shoulder and went to the West and build the main city of Romans. But experts agreed that this narrative is only a fiction.

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