Troy is now no longer a physical place but most certainly existed -- it has been assessed to be quite close to today's city of Troia, Tevfikiye Köyü in the Intepe/Çanakkale Province of Turkey It was an ancient Grecian city situated in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as "Asia Minor;" it is more recently known as "Anatolia," which is in modern Turkey, near to the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait (just to the south) and northwest of Mount Ida The present-day location is known as "Hisarlik" Alternate spellings include [ see weblink for Greek & Latin characters ] Ancient Greek: Troia, Ilion or Ilios Latin: Ilium Hittite: Wilusha or Truwisha Turkish: Truva or Troya [ source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy ]