Ilium
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.739, 20.566
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city near Despotiko, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
History
Ilium or Ilion, also known as Troja (Τροΐα), was a city of ancient Epirus. It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia.