Troy

(troi.) [Anc. TROJA, or ILIUM.) (Anc. Geog.) The capital of Troas, in Asia Minor, a city whose fame belongs entirely to the heroic age, and the siege of which by the Greeks, for the recovery of Helen, which lasted for 10 years, is the subject of Homer's grand epic, and the most renowned legend of all antiquity. Troy, in New York, a handsome and important city, C. of Ren elaer co., at the head of the Hudson river steam -navigation, 6 m. N. of Albany. As a commercial entrepôt, T. is one of the principal places in the State, and is the main outlet of the canal-system connecting the Hudson with the Great Lakes. Its manu fs. are on the most extensive scale, including all kinds of ironware, machinery, locomotive-engines, agricultural im. plements, .; besides those of textile fabrics, railway cars, mathematical instruments, . At West Troy, on the opposite bank of the Hudson, is a govt. arsenal. Pop. 46,465.-In Ohio, a vill., C. of Miami co., 68 m. W. of Columbus. Pop. 3,005. [s. 909]