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Gallipoli Peninsula

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Gallipoli Peninsula, Lat. Chersonesus Thracica, narrow peninsula, c.50 mi (80 km) long, W Turkey, extending southwestward between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles Dardanelles or Çanakkale Boğazi , strait, c.40 mi (60 km) long and from 1 to 4 mi (1.6 to 6.4 km) wide, connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and separating the Gallipoli peninsula of European Turkey from Asian Turkey.
..... Click the link for more information. . The port of Gallipoli gives it its name. It was the scene of the Gallipoli campaign Gallipoli campaign, 1915, Allied expedition in World War I for the purpose of gaining control of the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits, capturing Constantinople, and opening a Black Sea supply route to Russia.
..... Click the link for more information.  of 1915 and was (1920–36) part of the demilitarized Zone of the Straits.
Gallipoli Peninsula 

(Turkish, Gelibolu; in antiquity, Chersonesus Thracica), a peninsula in the European part of Turkey, between the Dardanelles Strait and the Saros Gulf of the Aegean Sea. Length, 90 km; maximum width, 20 km. It is made up of Paleocene sandstones and clays. It has a flat relief with individual hilly ridges of up to 420 m. Vegetation is of the Mediterranean type. Located on the Gallipoli Peninsula is the seaport of Gelibolu.
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It was the day the ANZAC landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915; around 8,000 members of the ANZAC died during the eight months they were based there.
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Kirkpatrick from South Shields risked his life to save wounded soldiers at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during the First World War.
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Many of the graves recall infamous battles, such as the failed Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula during the First World War.
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