Homer
The Ancients
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The Trojan War
The hitites knew Troy as a place called Waluisa and they refer to it as such in their written tablets. We know that from other tablets that conflicts were fought over Waluisa but we don't specifically know of a Trojan war per se. But there is evidence of tensions arising between this particular king called Ahiyawa who could have been a sort of mycenaean lord sort of on the mainland and the hitites so very very complicated history.
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