Hisarlik (Turkish: Hisarlık, "Place of Fortresses"),'s the modern name for the site of ancient Troy, also known as Ilion, and's located in what's now Turkey (historically Anatolia). The unoccupied archaeological site lies approximately 6.5 km from the Aegean Sea and equidistant from the Dardanelles. The archaeological site of Hisarlik's known in archaeological circles as a tell. A tell's an artificial hill, built up over centuries and millennia of occupation from its original site on a bed… (More on Hisarlik)