Troy is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homer's Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 9th or 8th century BC, but containing older material (Iliad means "about Ilion").
Troy is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.