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Sigēum

Now Yenisheri; the northwest promontory of the Troad, and the southern headland at the entrance of the Hellespont. It is here that Homer places the Grecian fleet and camp during the Trojan War. Near it was a seaport town of the same name (Herod.v. 95).

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.95
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