ANATOLIA'S DARK AGE
At the time of the Aegean immigration, about 1200 BC., many Anatolian cities were
devastated. The settlement of Troy VIIa, which is to be
identified with the Homeric city of King Priam, father of Paris or
Alexander, was destroyed first. In this invasion the Thracian peoples doubtless played a
great part. Soon after the destruction of Troy VIIa Hattuşa,
the capital of the Hittite Empire, was burned by the same invaders (c. 1180 BC.). The
Aegean immigration caused a Dark Age in Anatolia which in several areas and especially in
the central regions of the peninsula lasted until 750 BC.
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