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GALLIPOLI - The Gallipoli peninsula (; Turkish: Gelibolu Yarmadas; Greek: , Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the E...
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| (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) A landing by Australian and New Zealand forces was driven back by future Turkish leader Ataturk in this WWI battle |
| Between the Dardanelles & the Aegean lies this Turkish peninsula, site of WWI strife |
| In WWI, an Allied amphibious assault on this Dardanelles port city collapsed after the Turks counterattacked |
| In 2005 a single sapling was planted at an army barracks in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of this battle |
| Ancient Callipolis is now this Turkish site of a World War I clash |
| During WWI, Ataturk played a crucial military role in repelling the Allied invasion of this Turkish peninsula |
| There were more than 200,000 British casualties in the attempt to take this peninsula along the Dardanelles |
| Site of the first Ottoman conquest in Europe in 1356, this peninsula was assaulted by a combined Allied force in 1915 |
| The Ottomans relaxed in 1916 when Allied troops evacuated this peninsula after a failed bid to seize Constantinople |
| What is today this seaport on a peninsula was captured by the Ottomans in 1354, their first foothold in Europe |
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| A major campaign of the First World War which took place on the Gallipoli peninsula, on the European side of the Dardanelles, in 191516. The Allies (with heavy involvement of troops from Australia and New Zealand) hoped to gain control of the strait, but the campaign reached stalemate after each side suffered heavy casualties. |
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The Gallipoli peninsula (; Turkish: Gelibolu Yarmadas; Greek: , Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east. * Gallipoli is the Italian form of the Greek name "" (Kallípolis), meaning "Beautiful City", the original name of the modern town of Gelibolu. In antiquity, the peninsula was known as the Thracian Chersonese (Greek: , Thrakiké Chersónesos; Latin: Chersonesus Thracica). * The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Dardanelles (formally known as the Hellespont), and the Gulf of Saros (formally the bay of Melas). In antiquity, it was protected by the Long Wall, a defensive structure built across the narrowest part of the peninsula near the ancient city of Agora. The isthmus traversed by the wall was only 36 stadia in breadth (about 6.5 km), but the length of the peninsula from this wall to its southern extremity, |