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Evidence? I would decide, personally, not to call them the Trojan wars if they took place outside Troy. What you're saying, really, is that the Trojan wars did not take place, because I find it somewhat unlikely that Homer would have written about Northumberland. I suppose it's possible, theoretically, that a war could have been fought between continentals and Britons in the Bronze Age, but it is more likely to have been Cornish tin; at least, somewhere further south (ie, closer to the continent) than the Borders. In whatever case, there was a large conurbation called Troy on the western tip of Turkey that around 1200 BCE had a protracted war with several parts of Greece, and this is what Homer wrote about.
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