Alexandria Troas
Alexandria Troas (Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ Τρωάς ) is an ancient city in Asia Minor Troad, now part of the Turkish province of Çanakkale. It is located about 30 km south of Troy in the district ezine on the Aegean coast.
The city was founded shortly after 310 BC by Antigonus I Monophthalmos and Antigonia designated but already renamed BC 301/300 of Lysimachus in Alexandria Troas. The decisive factor was a roll-call demarcation to Alexandria ad Issum (now the İskenderun ) and Alexandria. It is not clear whether these Hellenistic foundation has been a creation or renaming of an earlier settlement. However, their flowering, the city experienced only in Roman times, as evidenced by written sources and buildings. Constantine the Great was considering to make it the capital of the Roman Empire, but opted for Byzantium. Worth seeing are the arches of Herodes Atticus -Therme and of the estimated 8 km long original city walls and, on the southwest side of the road, the foundations of a Roman bath.
Alexandria Troas also played a role in the spread of early Christianity. In three trips Alexandria Troas Paul visited. In his second letter to the Corinthians he takes particular reference to Troas (2 Cor 2:12-13 EU). Similarly, Ignatius of Antioch was with his extradition trip to Rome in Alexandria Troas, where he wrote three of the named after him Ignatian letters.
2003, an archaeological team of the Research Centre Asia Minor at the University of Münster, led by Elmar sword home in the city, a stone slab with a 90 -line inscription from the time of Hadrian. It contains three letters from the Emperor to the nationwide association of competitors with schemes for various agone, with contributors the distribution of the prize money is set to the winners as well as sanctions against those responsible for violations. The marble slab was studied at the University of Münster and worked from home sword together with the Cologne philologist Georg Petzl in several publications scientifically; the initial publication of the inscription was made in 2006. This was in the city, which is currently still ongoing since 2007 rise to new excavations. Finds from the excavations are collected in Canakkale Archaeological Museum.
Since 2011 the excavations led by Erhan Öztepe of the University of Ankara continues.