How many cities are there in Troy?

Hisarlık Tepe had settlements for thousands of years because of its geopolitical location, commanding the Aegean mouth of the Dardanelles, a. In this long time settlement period, the main materials used were mud brick and stone. Since it can be made easily mixing soil with straw, especially mud brick was used in Atalian during prehistorical periods. If a structure, build with stone and mud brick collapses, the easises way to rebuild is to use the same stones and flatten the mud brick remainders.

Therefore, a settlement in the same place with the same building technique result in a [stratification). Hisarlık/Troy is a 18 m long similar artifical hill. The excavations made there after 1863 discovered different layers of the settlement. Combining the old excavations and new studies, the results show that Hisarlık Hill consists of 7 settlement layers (Troy I-Troy VII, from early Bronz Age till early Iron Age) with different 50 structure period. Over these layers, there are remnants of Greek (Troy VIII) and Roman (Troy IX) cities Ilion, and at the top, although weak, there is a Byzantium settlement (Troy X). In conclusion, in Hisarhk/Troy, 10 different cities and 57 different structure periods are discovered.