Troy (Müritz)

Troja is a district of the municipality of Lärz in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District .

It is 30 kilometers away from Ankershagen , the former residence of Heinrich Schliemann , the "discoverer" of ancient Troy . However, the district was not given its name, as one might assume, for tourist reasons - Troy was mentioned in the official register of the state calendar for Mecklenburg-Schwerin as early as 1793, 29 years before Schliemann was born. The name is likely to come from the Old Slavic place troj , the plural form for three .

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History of the place, edited by Udo Funk ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

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^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 17.

53.248055555556 12.723055555556Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ' N , 12 ° 43' E

[1] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 17.