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  • In 1870 A.D. he started to test his beliefs by excavations at a hill called Hissarlik, on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • In 1878, at Hissarlik in Turkey, Sehliemann found evidence that what the blind poet saw was no illusion.

    The Golden Hoard 2008

  • Although Calvert and Sehliemann weren't the first antiquarians to focus on Hissarlik, they were the first with enough money, spare time and passion to do something about it.

    The Golden Hoard 2008

  • Still, most archeologists today agree that despite such shenanigans Hissarlik isn't just "Schliemannopolis."

    The Golden Hoard 2008

  • He seems much older then when I met him at Hissarlik in 1879.

    The Assos Journals of Francis H. Bacon 2006

  • To dogmatize that "the Atlantis myth was altogether a Platonic invention" on the grounds that the details of the story do not correspond exactly to the vaguely known civilization of that time is equivalent to refuse that the site of Troy was at Hissarlik.

    The End of Atlantis Galanopoulos, A.G. 1970

  • Troy was believed to have been wholly legendary until in 1873-81 its remains were excavated by Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik.

    The End of Atlantis Galanopoulos, A.G. 1970

  • In lands adjacent to Greece, they do not occur in Crete or at Hissarlik.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • April 28 -- Allied troops have established a line across the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, from Eske-Hissarlik to the mouth of a stream on the opposite side; Allies beat off attacks at Sari-Bair and are advancing; Turks are strongly intrenching, and have constructed many wire entanglements; report from Berlin states that the left wing of the allied army has been beaten back by the Turks and 12,000 men captured.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

  • The resemblance is so striking as to raise a strong presumption that, as the mounds of Nimrud and Hillah have been found to contain the palaces of the Assyrian and Babylonian kings, so we may accept the ruins found in the mound of Hissarlik as those of the capital of that primeval empire in Asia Minor.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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