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  • Troy
    Troy
    Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer...

  • Trojan language
    Trojan language
    The language spoken by the Trojans in the Iliad is Homeric Greek. However, it is unlikely that this is the language actually spoken by the inhabitants of Troy....

  • Trojan (astronomy)
    Trojan (astronomy)
    In astronomy, the adjective 'trojan' refers to a minor planet or natural satellite that shares an orbit with a larger planet or moon, but does not collide with it because it orbits around one of the two Lagrangian points of stability, and , which lie 60° ahead of and behind the larger body.The...

    , orbiting body

Computing
  • Trojan horse (computing)
    Trojan horse (computing)
    A Trojan horse, or trojan for short, is a term used to describe malware that appears, to the user, to perform a desirable function but, in fact, facilitates unauthorized access to the user's computer system. The term comes from the Trojan Horse story in Greek mythology.Trojan horses are not...

    , malicious software
  • Trojan (video game)
    Trojan (video game)
    is a 2D side-scrolling video game that is similar to Tiger Road and Kung-Fu Master. It was developed by Capcom and released in the United States in 1986 by Romstar...

    , arcade game

Music
  • The Trojan Men
    The Trojan Men
    The Trojan Men is an all-male a cappella group at the University of Southern California. Founded in 2005, the group has participated in and has earned numerous awards from competitions like the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella and USC's Absolut A Cappella contest...

    , singing group
  • Trojan Records
    Trojan Records
    Trojan Records is a British record label specialising in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music. The label operates under the Sanctuary Records Group.-Beginnings and heyday:...

    , British record label
  • Les Troyens
    Les Troyens
    Les Troyens is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid...

    (The Trojans), opera by Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation...


Transport
  • AL.60F Trojan, Italian utility aircraft also known as the Aermacchi AL-60
    Aermacchi AL-60
    The AL-60 was a light civil utility aircraft of the late 1950s and early 1960s, originally designed by Al Mooney of Lockheed in the United States...

  • T-28 Trojan
    T-28 Trojan
    The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan was a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s...

    , US military trainer aircraft
  • GWR No. 1340 Trojan
    GWR No. 1340 Trojan
    GWR No. 1340 is an 0-4-0ST steam locomotive, built in 1897 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England.Her first owners were Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. In 1903 she was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway. This was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923.In...

     locomotive
  • Trojan (automobile)
    Trojan (automobile)
    Trojan was a British automobile manufacturer; the eponymous marque thereof was produced between 1914 and 1974.-Early history:The company was founded by Leslie Hayward Hounsfield who went into business as a general engineer called the Polygon Engineering Works in a small workshop in Clapham, South...

    , former British vehicle manufacturer
  • Trojan, also known as the FV432
    FV432
    The FV432 is the armoured personnel carrier variant of the British Army's FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles. Since its introduction in the 1960s it has been the most common variant, being used for transporting infantry on the battlefield...

    , a British armoured personnel carrier
  • Trojan (vehicle)
    Trojan (vehicle)
    The Trojan armoured fighting vehicle is a minefield breaching vehicle amongst other things, currently in use with the Royal Engineers of the British Army. It is based on a Challenger 2 tank chassis, but lacks the main armament...

    , variant of the Challenger 2 tank
  • Trojan Battery Corporation

Other
  • Trojan (condoms)
    Trojan (condoms)
    Trojan is a brand name of condoms manufactured by the Church & Dwight Company. 70.5 percent of condoms purchased in United States drugstores are Trojan contraceptives. Trojan began selling condoms in 1927 through an ad placed in a trade magazine for pharmacists....

    , brand
  • Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
    Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
    Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant in Rainier, Oregon, United States, and the only commercial nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After sixteen years of service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric , almost twenty years before...

     in Oregon
  • Trojan, Gauteng
    Trojan, Gauteng
    Trojan is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9....

     in South Africa
  • Trojan skinhead
    Trojan skinhead
    Trojan skinheads are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the late 1960s, when ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on mod-influenced clothing styles...

    , cultural identity in UK

See also

  • Sports teams named Trojans
    Sports teams named Trojans
    "Trojans", evoking the soldiers of the ancient city of Troy depicted in The Iliad, is a popular name for modern sports teams, including those listed here.- Non-scholastic teams :* Rotterdam Trojans "Trojans", evoking the soldiers of the ancient city of Troy depicted in The Iliad, is a popular name...

  • Trojan Horse
    Trojan Horse
    The Trojan Horse was a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer's Iliad, and before Homer's Odyssey. It was the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the...

  • Trojan War
    Trojan War
    In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...

  • The Trojan Women
    The Trojan Women
    The Trojan Women is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC , the same year...