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No. The Trojans were their own sort of mini-nation. They were influenced by Greek culture, as they often traded with them, but they spoke an Indo-European language (as well as Greek) and they were also influenced by Hittite customs.

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We don't know what their origin or language was. The archaeological evidence doesn't help either as there are several levels of settlement on the Troy site in Asia Minor. Yes, they were Indo-European - a very broad category - but so were the Greeks and Hittites, and the Greeks themselves had several rather different ethnic and cultural groups. All we can sat is that they were diffent, but their name Dardanians doesn't tell us what their specific origins were.

As a trading centre, they would have been culturally influenced and multi-lingual to match the passers-through the Dardanelles strait, on whose payments their wealth was based. And it was this wealth rather than 'much manned Helen' which attracted the 10-year looting expedition of the Achaians (a branch of the Greek peoples).

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