Where was Troas, where Paul saw the man of Macedonia?

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Troas, in full Alexandria Troas, was a port on the Aegean coast of north-west Asia Minor, by the village of Dalyan in the province of Çanakkale in Turkey, opposite the island of Tenedos and south of Troy; the map point stands on its ruins. Assos lay about 33 km to the south-east in a straight line, and Neapolis in Macedonia, where Paul first landed in Europe, about 198 km across the northern Aegean. In Paul's day it was a Roman colony and the chief harbour for the crossing from Asia to Macedonia. The New Testament brings Paul here three times. On the second journey, about AD 50, “they passing by Mysia came down to Troas”, and in the night “there stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us”; from here the story is told as “we”. The crossing took two days, “with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis”; years later the same sea took five days the other way. Paul came back to preach and found “a door was opened unto me of the Lord”; on his last journey, about AD 57, he stayed seven days, talked at the breaking of bread until midnight, and Eutychus “fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead”, but was brought alive. Second Timothy asks for “the cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus”. Antigonus founded the city late in the fourth century BC, and Lysimachus renamed it Alexandria after Alexander; under Augustus it became a Roman colony. Early in the second century Ignatius of Antioch, taken under guard to Rome, wrote three of his letters here, and Zosimus says that Constantine began his new capital near Troas before choosing Byzantium. The circuit of the walls, baths, a theatre and the silted basins of the harbour can still be traced on the shore.