Troy Troy Troy (, "Troia" or Τροίας, "Troias" and , "Ilion" or , "Ilios"; and ; Hittite: "Wilusha" or "Truwisha"; ) was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, just south of the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad", one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the "Iliad"
Ralph T. Troy the state government, signed by Governor Edwin Edwards. Citing family financial obligations, Troy did not seek reelection in 1976, when he was succeeded by the more conservative Jack Howard, whom Troy had unseated four years earlier. But Howard would not complete his final term. Under Troy, voters rejected a plan to establish the since approved mayor-council form of municipal government. Troy had then argued that his city "has just got to face up that we need a more modern and responsive form of government than that under which we are operating now ... There is waste because of needless duplication