The Dardanoi ( Greek : Δάρδανοι ; its anglicized modern terms being Dardanians or Dardans ) were a legendary people of the Troad , located in northwestern Anatolia . The Dardanoi were the descendants of Dardanus , the mythical founder of Dardanus , an ancient city in the Troad. A contingent of Dardanians figures among Troy's allies in the Trojan War . Homer makes a clear distinction between the Trojans and the Dardanoi, however, "Dardanoi"/"Dardanian" later became essentially metonymous –– or at least is commonly perceived to be so–– with "Trojan", especially in the works of Vergil such as the Aeneid .
13-718: Dardan or Dardans may refer to: Dardanoi , an ancient people of the Troad Dardani , an ancient people of the Balkans Dardan (given name) Dardan Mushkolaj , German-Albanian rapper Constantin Dardan , Moldovan politician Hoseynabad-e Dardan , a village in Iran See also [ edit ] Dardanus (disambiguation) Dardania (disambiguation) Kamenica, Kosovo , Albanian name Dardana or Dardanë Topics referred to by
26-714: A tribe or people who lived in a landlocked part of Illyria north and/or northwest of Macedonia in classical antiquity . They were neighbors of the Dardani and the Triballi . Classical accounts of them frequently conflate them with the separate Veneti around the northern Adriatic Sea and the Eneti around the southern Black Sea . Eneti is the Latin form of the Greek Eneti ( Ancient Greek : Ἐνετοί , Enetoí ). Herodotus calls them
39-556: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dardanians (Trojan) The Royal House of Troy was also divided into two branches, that of the Dardanoi and that of the Trojans (their city being called Troy, or sometimes Ilion/Ilium). The House of the Dardanoi (its members being the Dardanids , Greek : Δαρδανίδαι ; Latin : Dardanidae )
52-504: The Battle of Qadesh refer to Hittite allies known as Drdny , likely referring to the Dardanoi. Homer in the Iliad carefully distinguishes the Dardanoi from the Trojans, not only in the list of Trojan allies (11:816–823) but also in the frequently repeated formula keklyte meu, Trôes kai Dardanoi ed' epikuroi (e.g., 3.456)". Words used by Homer are: Illyrian Eneti The Eneti were
65-610: The "Eneti of the Illyrians " ( Ἰλλυριῶν Ἐνετοί , Illyriō̂n Enetoí ). Along with the Taulanti , the Eneti were the oldest attested peoples expressly considered Illyrian in early Greek historiography . They were neighbors of the Dardani , Triballi , and Macedonians . They are first attested in the 5th-century BC History of the Greek ethnographic historian Herodotus . While discussing
78-561: The Balkans and Anatolia that are considered too great to be a mere coincidence (e.g. Eneti and Enetoi , Bryges and Phryges , Moesians and Mysians ). Strabo described the Dardanoi as Illyrians and this view is also supported by modern scholars. Archaeological finds from the Troad dating back to the Chalcolithic period show striking affinity to archaeological finds known from
91-523: The Dardanoi, and of the Trojans, and the nature of their language remain a mystery. The remains of their material culture reveal close ties with Luwian , other Anatolian groups, and Thracians . The Dardanoi were linked by ancient Greek and Roman writers with the Illyrian people of the same name who lived in the Balkans (i.e. the Dardani ), a notion supported by a number of parallel ethnic names found both in
104-582: The former custom of Babylonian villages' holding an annual auction of young women for marriage , he mentions that he has been told the Illyrian Eneti follow the same practice. In his 2nd-century work on the 88–63 BC Mithridatic Wars between the Roman Republic and Mithridates VI of Pontus , Appian states at one point that the consul Sulla killed time while awaiting a reply from Mithridates by launching reprisal attacks from Macedonia against
117-485: The house of the Dardanoi. Homer writes; The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom the fair Aphrodite, a goddess bedded with a mortal man, bore to Anchises in the mountains of Ida. He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war. The strait of the Dardanelles was named after the Dardanoi, who lived in the region. The ethnic affinities of
130-411: The neighboring Eneti, Dardani , and Sintians , who had been raiding Macedonia before his arrival. Sulla is reported to have devastated their territory. The 12th-century Commentaries on Homer 's Iliad written by Eustathius of Thessalonica includes the note that the 6th-century gazetteer Ethnica ( Εθνικά , Ethniká ) written by Stephanus of Byzantium mentioned the Eneti as dwelling beside
143-549: The same era in Muntenia and Moldavia , and there are other traces which suggest close ties between the Troad and the Carpatho-Balkan region of Europe . Archaeologists in fact have stated that the styles of certain ceramic objects and bone figurines show that these objects were brought into the Troad by Carpatho-Danubian colonists; for example, certain ceramic objects have been shown to have Cucuteni origins. Egyptian records from
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169-645: Was older than the House of Troy, but Troy later became more powerful. Aeneas is referred to in Virgil 's Aeneid interchangeably as a Dardanian or as a Trojan , but strictly speaking, Aeneas was of the branch of the Dardanoi. Many rulers of Rome , for example Julius Caesar and Augustus , claimed descent from Aeneas and the Houses of Troy and Dardania. Homer adds the epithet Dardanides (Δαρδανίδης) to Priam and to other prominent characters denoting that they are members of
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