Original: Ilium is a more poetic term: Turkish: Truva and Troia) was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida.
Simplified: Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the location of Homeric Troy, Turkish Truva in Hisarlik in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles.