What's the actual proof for the Hisarlik being historical

that sweet sweet tourist revenue tho

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>>3269430

>>3270512
wow that might be the best historical "we wuz" I've ever seen

Yes, it's located exactly where the Iliad and the Hittites said it was

>>3270558
>the Iliad
Not really, much of the geography doesn't match up at all and back in the day matched up even less.

>Hittites
As far as I can tell it's all heavily steeped in confirmation bias. We have very few sources, and the few which seem to match with the Wilusa=Ilios/Taruisa=Troy hypothesis are eagerly accepted based on little else than the sounds being thought to be similar, while ones which contradict it are just as eagerly dismissed as possible errors by the Hittite scribes.

>>3270915
They were both near Lesbos as Hissarlik is

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>She stands her ground and talks to him. To excuse the maids, she admits that the Phaeacians are "the farthermost of men, and no other mortals are conversant with them",[2]

>Odysseus however was the king of the majority of the Ionian Islands,[8] not only of Ithaca, but also "of Cephallenia, Neritum, Crocylea, Aegilips, Same and Zacynthus"[9] so if Scheria was Corfu, it would be surprising that the citizens of one of the Ionian Islands did not know Odysseus. Furthermore, when Odysseus reveals his identity, he says to the nobles: "[…] if I outlive this time of sorrow, I may be counted as your friend, though I live so far away from all of you"[10] indicating that Scheria was far away from Ithaca.

So what has made so many idiots believe Scheria was Corfu? It's clearly a much more distant island, in the Odyssey it is clearly stated multiple times that the Phaecians are extremely geographically isolated, while Corfu is like a few hours from mainland Greece by ship

>>3271056
the first to make that hypothesis was Thucydides
the claim is anachronistic because Corfu was not populated by greeks at the time the story supposedly took place
similarly it was ancient greeks that positioned Troy there

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0cPPGU7IctEUDlvbzVzMHVyMzg/view

Iliad is a poem. The Trojan War is a Greek myth. It's a work of fiction, a tale like Game of Thrones. It's not real history.

>>3270544

are the Turks the ultimate we wuz champions?

>>3272248
False

>>3272288
>still causing extreme butthurt for Euro nationalists 550 years later
Yeah I'd say so.