troy: signification et définitions

also (ĭ l′ē-ə n,-ŏ n′) or (-ē-ə m) An ancient city of northwest Asia Minor near the Dardanelles. Originally a Phrygian city dating from the Bronze Age, it is the legendary site of the Trojan War and was captured and destroyed by Greek forces c. 1200 bc . The ruins of Troy were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1871.

A city of eastern New York on the Hudson River northeast of Albany. Settled in the 1780s, it is the seat of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (founded 1824).