TROIA (anc. geog.) a celebrated name denoting a district, at first called Idea; and the city, Ilium. But the custom has prevailed to call both district and city Troia; and this last more commonly Troia than Ilium, and both with the epithet Vetus. Trojans, the people; often called Phryges, (Virgil); and Troes, from Tros, (Stephanus): Trojanus, Troius, and Phrygius, the epithets, (Virgil): Troicus, (Ovid). Whether the Phrygians before the Trojan times, or after the destruction of Troy, occupied that country, is hard to determine in such a distant antiquity.