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The Gallipoli Peninsula (/ɡəˈlɪpəli, ɡæ-/ (Audio file "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Gallipoli.wav" not found))^[1] 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 Καλλίπολις (Template:Transliteration), meaning 'beautiful city',^[2] the original name of the modern town of Gelibolu. In antiquity, the peninsula was known as the Thracian Chersonese (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.).

The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Dardanelles (formerly known as the Hellespont), and the Gulf of Saros (formerly the bay of Melas). In antiquity, it was protected by the Long Wall,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] 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^[7] or about 6.5 km (4.0 mi), but the length of the peninsula from this wall to its southern extremity, Cape Mastusia, was 420 stadia^[7] or about 77.5 km (48.2 mi).

History

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Antiquity and Middle Ages

File:Thracian Chersonese.svg

Map of the Thracian Chersonese

In ancient times, the Gallipoli Peninsula was known as the Thracian Chersonese (from Greek χερσόνησος, 'peninsula'^[2]) to the Greeks and later the Romans. It was the location of several prominent towns, including Cardia, Pactya, Callipolis (Gallipoli), Alopeconnesus (Ἀλωπεκόννησος), Sestos, Madytos, and Elaeus. The peninsula was renowned for its wheat. It also benefited from its strategic importance on the main route between Europe and Asia, as well as from its control of the shipping route from Crimea. The city of Sestos was the main crossing-point on the Hellespont.^{[citation needed]}

According to Herodotus, the Thracian tribe of Dolonci (Δόλογκοι) (or 'barbarians' according to Cornelius Nepos) held possession of the peninsula before Greek colonizers arrived. Then, settlers from Ancient Greece, mainly of Ionian and Aeolian stock, founded about 12 cities on the peninsula in the 7th century BC.^[8] The Athenian statesman Miltiades the Elder founded a major Athenian colony there around 560 BC. He took authority over the entire peninsula, augmenting its defences against incursions from the mainland. It eventually passed to his nephew, the more famous Miltiades the Younger, about 524 BC. The peninsula was abandoned to the Persians in 493 BC after the beginning of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–478 BC).^{[citation needed]}

The Persians were eventually expelled, after which the peninsula was for a time ruled by Athens, which enrolled it into the Delian League in 478 BC. The Athenians established a number of cleruchies on the Thracian Chersonese and sent an additional 1,000 settlers around 448 BC. Sparta gained control after the decisive Battle of Aegospotami in 404 BC, but the peninsula subsequently reverted to the Athenians. During the 4th century BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the focus of a bitter territorial dispute between Athens and Macedon, whose king Philip II sought its possession. It was eventually ceded to Philip in 338 BC.^{[citation needed]}

After the death of Philip's son Alexander the Great in 323 BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the object of contention among Alexander's successors. Lysimachus established his capital Lysimachia here. In 278 BC, Celtic tribes from Galatia in Asia Minor settled in the area. In 196 BC, the Seleucid king Antiochus III seized the peninsula. This alarmed the Greeks and prompted them to seek the aid of the Romans, who conquered the Thracian Chersonese, which they gave to their ally Eumenes II of Pergamon in 188 BC. At the extinction of the Attalid dynasty in 133 BC it passed again to the Romans, who from 129 BC administered it in the Roman province of Asia. It was subsequently made a state-owned territory (ager publicus) and during the reign of the emperor Augustus it was imperial property.^{[citation needed]}

File:Gallipolimap2.png

Map of the peninsula and its surroundings

The Thracian Chersonese was part of the Eastern Roman Empire from its foundation in 395 AD. In 443 AD, Attila the Hun invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula during one of the last stages of his grand campaign that year. He captured both Callipolis and Sestus.^[9] Aside from a brief period from 1204 to 1235, when it was controlled by the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine Empire ruled the territory until 1356. During the night between 1 and 2 March 1354, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses.^{[citation needed]}

Ottoman era

Ottoman conquest

Within a month after the devastating 1354 earthquake the Ottomans besieged and captured the town of Gallipoli, making it the first Ottoman stronghold in Europe and the staging area for Ottoman expansion across the Balkans.^[10] The Savoyard Crusade recaptured Gallipoli for Byzantium in 1366, but the beleaguered Byzantines were forced to hand it back in September 1376. The Greeks living there were allowed to continue their everyday activities. In the 19th century, Gallipoli (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist., Gelibolu) was a district (kaymakamlik) in the Vilayet of Adrianople, with about thirty thousand inhabitants: comprising Greeks, Turks, Armenians and Jews.^[11]

Crimean War (1853–1856)

File:Port de Gallipoli.JPG

The port of Gallipoli, c. 1880

Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point between the western Mediterranean and Istanbul (formerly Constantinople).^[12]^[13]

In March 1854 British and French engineers constructed an 11.5 km (7.1 mi) line of defence to protect the peninsula from a possible Russian attack and secure control of the route to the Mediterranean Sea.^[14]^: 414

First Balkan War (1912–1913)

During the First Balkan War, the 1913 Battle of Bulair and several minor skirmishes took place where the Ottoman army fought in the Greek villages near Gallipoli".^[15]^[16]^[17] The Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars mention destruction and massacres in the area by the Ottoman army against Greek and Bulgarian population.^[18]

The Ottoman Government, under the pretext that a village was within the firing line, ordered its evacuation within three hours. The residents abandoned everything they possessed, left their village and went to Gallipoli. Seven of the Greek villagers who stayed two minutes later than the three-hour limit allowed for the evacuation were shot by the soldiers. After the end of the Balkan War the exiles were allowed to return. But as the Government allowed only the Turks to rebuild their houses and furnish them, the exiled Greeks were compelled to remain in Gallipoli.^[19]

World War I: Gallipoli campaign (1914–1918)

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Landing at Gallipoli in April 1915

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The Sphinx overlooking Anzac Cove

During World War I (1914–1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the Gallipoli campaign (1915–1916) in and near the peninsula, seeking to secure a sea route to relieve their eastern ally, Russia. The Ottomans set up defensive fortifications along the peninsula and contained the invading forces.^[20]

In early 1915, attempting to seize a strategic advantage in World War I by capturing the Bosporus Strait at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the British authorised an attack on the peninsula by French, British, and British Empire forces. The first Australian troops landed at ANZAC Cove early in the morning of 25 April 1915. After eight months of heavy fighting the last Allied soldiers withdrew by 9 January 1916.^{[citation needed]}

The campaign, one of the greatest Ottoman victories during the war, is considered by historians as a humiliating Allied failure. Turks regard it as a defining moment in their nation's history and national identity,^[21] contributing to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey eight years later under President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who first rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli.

The Ottoman Empire instituted the Gallipoli Star as a military decoration in 1915 and awarded it throughout the rest of World War I.^[22]

The campaign was the first major military action of Australia and New Zealand (or ANZACs) as independent dominions, setting a foundation for Australian and New Zealand military history, and contributing to their developing national identities.^[23]^[24] The date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "ANZAC Day". It remains the most significant commemoration of military casualties and "returned soldiers" in Australia and New Zealand.^{[citation needed]}

On the Allied side, one of the promoters of the expedition was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, whose bullish optimism caused damage to his reputation that took years to repair.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to the Allied landings in April 1915,^[25] the Ottoman Empire deported Greek residents from Gallipoli and the surrounding region and from the islands in the sea of Marmara, to the interior where they were at the mercy of hostile Turks.^[26] The Greeks had little time to pack and the Ottoman authorities permitted them to take only some bedding and the rest was handed over to the Government.^[26] The Turks then plundered the houses and properties.^[27] A testimony of a deportee described how the deportees were forced onto crowded steamers, standing-room only, then on disembarking, men of military age were removed (for forced labour in the labour battalions of the Ottoman army).^{[citation needed]}

The Metropolitan bishop of Gallipoli wrote on 17 July 1915 that the extermination of the Christian refugees was methodical.^[19] He also mentions that "The Turks, like beasts of prey, immediately plundered all the Christians' property and carried it off. The inhabitants and refugees of my district are entirely without shelter, awaiting to be sent no one knows where ...".^[19] Many Greeks died from hunger and there were frequent cases of rape of women and young girls, as well as their forced conversion to Islam.^[19] In some cases, Muhacirs appeared in the villages even before the Greek inhabitants were deported and stoned the houses and threatened the inhabitants that they would kill them if they did not leave.^[28]

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Greek troops occupied Gallipoli on 4 August 1920 during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22, considered part of the Turkish War of Independence. After the Armistice of Mudros of 30 October 1918 it became a Greek prefecture centre as Kallipolis. However, Greece was forced to cede Eastern Thrace after the Armistice of Mudanya of October 1922. Gallipoli was briefly handed over to British troops on 20 October 1922, but finally returned to Turkish rule on 26 November 1922.^{[citation needed]}

White Russian exiles (1920-1923)

In November 1920, after the defeat of the Russian White army of General Pyotr Wrangel, Wrangel's fleet evacuated a significant number of émigré soldiers and their families to Constantinople from the Crimean Peninsula in over 130 vessels; 26,590 of the refugees transferred to Gallipoli.^[29]^[30] The "Gallipoli internment [ru]" involved a camp near the city of Gelibolu, occupied from November 1920 until May 1922. From Gallipoli, many White Russian officers and men dispersed westward to places such as Yugoslavia, Brazil and Bulgaria, where they found refuge.^{[citation needed]}

There are now many cemeteries and war memorials on the Gallipoli peninsula.^{[citation needed]}

Turkish Republic

Between 1923 and 1926 Gallipoli became the centre of Gelibolu Province, comprising the districts of Gelibolu, Eceabat, Keşan and Şarköy. After the dissolution of the province, it became a district centre in Çanakkale Province.^{[citation needed]}

Tourism significance

Today, the Gallipoli Peninsula is one of Turkey's most visited historical destinations, attracting hundreds of thousands of domestic and international visitors every year. The Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park preserves battlefields, cemeteries, and memorials of the Gallipoli Campaign, and ANZAC Day (25 April) ceremonies draw large numbers of Australians and New Zealanders. Various tour operators offer guided tours of the battlefields, memorials, and museums to help visitors understand the significance of the campaign. ^[31]

Notable people

Ahmed Bican (1398 – c. 1466), author^{[citation needed]}
Piri Reis (1465/70 – 1553^[32]), admiral, geographer and cartographer
Mustafa Âlî (1541–1600), Ottoman historian, politician and writer^{[citation needed]}
Sofia Vembo (1910–1978), Greek singer and actress^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ Jones, Daniel (2003) [1917], Peter Roach; James Hartmann; Jane Setter (eds.), English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 3-12-539683-2. Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "Καλλίπολις". A Greek–English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2020 – via Perseus Digital Library Project.
↑ Xenophon (January 1921). Hellenica, Volume II. Translated by Brownson, Carleton L. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674990999.
↑ Diodorus Siculus (January 1933). Library of History, Volume I. Translated by Oldfather, Charles H. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674993075.
↑ Plinius Secundus, Gaius (1855). Bostock, John; Riley, Henry Thomas (eds.). The Natural History. London: H. G. Bohn. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
↑ Plutarch (January 1919). Lives (in Ancient Greek). Translated by Perrin, Bernadotte. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674991101. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Herodotus, The Histories, vi. 36; Xenophon, ibid.; Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 67 (PDF Archived 12 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine)
↑ Herodotus, vi. 34 Archived 25 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine; Nepos, Cornelius, Lives of Eminent Commanders, "Miltiades", 1 Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Vintage. 2011. p. 105. ISBN 978-1844139156. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
↑ Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion, 2005. p 31 ISBN 1-4013-0850-3.
↑ File:Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Callipolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
↑ "Crimea". Archived from the original on 22 February 2006. Retrieved 11 October 2006.
↑ "Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852–1856: despatch". victorianweb.org. Archived from the original on 28 November 2002. Retrieved 2 July 2006.
↑ Porter, Maj Gen Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers.
↑ Shirinian, George N. (2017). Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923. Berghahn Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-1785334320. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
↑ Astourian, Stephan (2020). Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State. Berghahn Books. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-78920-450-6. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
↑ Brown, Carroll N; Papadopoulos, Alexander (1919). Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war. Oxford university press. p. 52.
↑ Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War. Washington, D.C. 1914. p. 132.
↑ ^19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 ^19.3 Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey, 1914–1918. Constantinople [London, Printed by the Hesperia Press]. 1919.
↑ "Gallipoli from a different perspective - The story of a single soldier, Paul Nowarka". www.europeana.eu. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
↑ "Gallipoli: a Turkish view | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
↑ "Gallipoli Star badge, 1915". www.lbi.org. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
↑ "Chapter 1 - The Significance of the Gallipoli Peninsula". Parliament of Australia. 6 June 2024.
↑ "Gallipoli in brief | NZ History". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
↑ McMeekin, Sean (7 May 2012). The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674058538. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Google Books.
↑ ^26.0 ^26.1 Lieberman, Benjamin (December 2013). Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-1442223196. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
↑ "The Meaning of Gallipoli to Hellenism". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
↑ Morris, Benny; Ze'evi, Dror (April 2019). The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard University Press. p. 338. ISBN 978-0674916456. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
↑ Shmelev, Anatol (3 November 2008). "Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920—1923". In Macleod, Jenny (ed.). Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era. Basingstoke: Springer. pp. 195–213. ISBN 9780230582798. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
↑ Robinson, Paul (2002). The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941. Oxford historical monographs (reprint ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780199250219. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
↑ "Visiting Gallipoli". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
↑ "Ana Sayfa" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 February 2020.

External links

Template:Peninsulas of Turkey Template:Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey Coordinates: 40°21′N 26°27′E / 40.350°N 26.450°E / 40.350; 26.450

[1] Jones, Daniel (2003) [1917], Peter Roach; James Hartmann; Jane Setter (eds.), English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 3-12-539683-2. Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.)

[lid-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "Καλλίπολις". A Greek–English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2020 – via Perseus Digital Library Project.

[Brownson1921-3] Xenophon (January 1921). Hellenica, Volume II. Translated by Brownson, Carleton L. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674990999.

[Oldfather1933-4] Diodorus Siculus (January 1933). Library of History, Volume I. Translated by Oldfather, Charles H. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674993075.

[Pliny1855-5] Plinius Secundus, Gaius (1855). Bostock, John; Riley, Henry Thomas (eds.). The Natural History. London: H. G. Bohn. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

[Plutarch1919-6] Plutarch (January 1919). Lives (in Ancient Greek). Translated by Perrin, Bernadotte. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674991101. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.

[herod_6.36_xen_3.2_scy_67-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Herodotus, The Histories, vi. 36; Xenophon, ibid.; Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 67 (PDF Archived 12 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine)

[herod_6.34_nepos_1-8] Herodotus, vi. 34 Archived 25 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine; Nepos, Cornelius, Lives of Eminent Commanders, "Miltiades", 1 Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine

[9] Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Vintage. 2011. p. 105. ISBN 978-1844139156. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[10] Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion, 2005. p 31 ISBN 1-4013-0850-3.

[11] File:Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Callipolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

[Plus-12] "Crimea". Archived from the original on 22 February 2006. Retrieved 11 October 2006.

[Victorian-13] "Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852–1856: despatch". victorianweb.org. Archived from the original on 28 November 2002. Retrieved 2 July 2006.

[14] Porter, Maj Gen Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers.

[15] Shirinian, George N. (2017). Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923. Berghahn Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-1785334320. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

[16] Astourian, Stephan (2020). Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State. Berghahn Books. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-78920-450-6. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

[Persecutions_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_before_the_European_war-17] Brown, Carroll N; Papadopoulos, Alexander (1919). Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war. Oxford university press. p. 52.

[18] Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War. Washington, D.C. 1914. p. 132.

[Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918-19] 19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 ^19.3 Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey, 1914–1918. Constantinople [London, Printed by the Hesperia Press]. 1919.

[20] "Gallipoli from a different perspective - The story of a single soldier, Paul Nowarka". www.europeana.eu. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

[21] "Gallipoli: a Turkish view | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 7 June 2024.

[22] "Gallipoli Star badge, 1915". www.lbi.org. Retrieved 15 March 2026.

[23] "Chapter 1 - The Significance of the Gallipoli Peninsula". Parliament of Australia. 6 June 2024.

[24] "Gallipoli in brief | NZ History". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 June 2024.

[25] McMeekin, Sean (7 May 2012). The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674058538. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Google Books.

[Terrible_Fate-26] 26.0 ^26.1 Lieberman, Benjamin (December 2013). Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-1442223196. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[27] "The Meaning of Gallipoli to Hellenism". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.

[28] Morris, Benny; Ze'evi, Dror (April 2019). The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard University Press. p. 338. ISBN 978-0674916456. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

[29] Shmelev, Anatol (3 November 2008). "Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920—1923". In Macleod, Jenny (ed.). Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era. Basingstoke: Springer. pp. 195–213. ISBN 9780230582798. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

[30] Robinson, Paul (2002). The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941. Oxford historical monographs (reprint ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780199250219. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

[31] "Visiting Gallipoli". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 27 September 2025.

[32] "Ana Sayfa" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 February 2020.

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+The '''Gallipoli Peninsula''' ({{IPAc-en|ɡ|ə|ˈ|l|ɪ|p|əl|i|,_|ɡ|æ|-|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Gallipoli.wav}}){{refn|{{Citation |last=Jones |first=Daniel |title=English Pronouncing Dictionary |year=2003 |editor=Peter Roach |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=3-12-539683-2 |author-link=Daniel Jones (phonetician) |editor2=James Hartmann |editor3=Jane Setter |orig-year=1917}}. {{langx|tr|Gelibolu Yarımadası}}; {{langx|el|Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης|Chersónisos tis Kallípolis}})}} is located in the southern part of [[East Thrace]], the [[Europe]]an 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 language|Greek]] name {{lang|grc|Καλλίπολις}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Kallípolis}}), meaning 'beautiful city',<ref name="lid">{{cite book |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkalli%2Fpolis |chapter=Καλλίπολις |first1=Henry George |last1=Liddell |author1-link=Henry Liddell |first2=Robert |last2=Scott |author2-link=Robert Scott (philologist) |title=A Greek–English Lexicon |others=Revised and augmented throughout by Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1940 |via=Perseus Digital Library Project |access-date=2020-08-28 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407051701/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkalli%2Fpolis |url-status=live }}</ref> the original name of the modern town of [[Gelibolu]]. In [[classical antiquity|antiquity]], the peninsula was known as the '''Thracian Chersonese''' ({{langx|grc|Θρακικὴ Χερσόνησος|Thrakiké Chersónesos}}; {{langx|la|Chersonesus Thracica}}).
+Gallipoli is the Italian form of the [[Greek language|Greek]] name {{lang|grc|Καλλίπολις}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Kallípolis}}), meaning 'beautiful city',<ref name="lid">{{cite book |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |author1-link=Henry Liddell |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkalli%2Fpolis |title=A Greek–English Lexicon |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |author2-link=Robert Scott (philologist) |publisher=Clarendon Press |others=Revised and augmented throughout by Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie |year=1940 |location=Oxford |chapter=Καλλίπολις |access-date=2020-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407051701/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkalli%2Fpolis |archive-date=7 April 2022 |url-status=live |via=Perseus Digital Library Project}}</ref> the original name of the modern town of [[Gelibolu]]. In [[classical antiquity|antiquity]], the [[peninsula]] was known as the '''Thracian Chersonese''' ({{langx|grc|Θρακικὴ Χερσόνησος|Thrakiké Chersónesos}}; {{langx|la|Chersonesus Thracica}}).
-The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the [[Dardanelles]] (formerly known as the Hellespont), and the [[Gulf of Saros]] (formerly the bay of Melas). In [[ancient Greece|antiquity]], it was protected by the [[Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)|Long Wall]],<ref name="Brownson1921">{{cite book |title=Hellenica, Volume II |author=Xenophon |translator-last=Brownson |translator-first=Carleton L. |date=January 1921 |url=https://archive.org/details/xenophonmemorabi00xeno |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=9780674990999 |author-link=Xenophon |translator-link=Carleton Lewis Brownson |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Oldfather1933">{{cite book |title=Library of History, Volume I |author=Diodorus Siculus |url=https://archive.org/details/diodorussiculus09diod |date=January 1933 |translator-last=Oldfather |translator-first=Charles H. |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=9780674993075 |author-link=Diodorus Siculus |translator-link=Charles Henry Oldfather |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Pliny1855">{{cite book |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&redirect=true |title=The Natural History |author-last=Plinius Secundus |author-first=Gaius |date=1855 |editor-last1=Bostock |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Riley |editor-first2=Henry Thomas |publisher=H. G. Bohn |location=London |author-link=Pliny the Elder |editor-link1=John Bostock (physician) |editor-link2=Henry Thomas Riley |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224102938/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137&redirect=true |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Plutarch1919">{{cite book |title=Lives |author=Plutarch |translator-last=Perrin |translator-first=Bernadotte |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0072%3Achapter%3D19%3Asection%3D1 |language=grc |date=January 1919 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=9780674991101 |author-link=Plutarch |translator-link=Bernadotte Perrin |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225185610/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0072:chapter%3D19:section%3D1 |url-status=live }}</ref> a defensive structure built across the narrowest part of the peninsula near the ancient city of [[Agora (Thrace)|Agora]]. The [[isthmus]] traversed by the wall was only 36 [[stadia (length)|stadia]] in breadth<ref name="herod_6.36_xen_3.2_scy_67">[[Herodotus]], ''The Histories'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=6.36 vi. 36]; Xenophon, ibid.; Pseudo-Scylax, ''[[Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax]]'', 67 ([http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/gjs/skylax_for_www_02214.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612100745/http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/gjs/skylax_for_www_02214.pdf |date=12 June 2009 }})</ref> or about {{cvt|6.5|km}}, but the length of the peninsula from this wall to its southern extremity, Cape Mastusia, was 420 stadia<ref name="herod_6.36_xen_3.2_scy_67"/> or about {{cvt|77.5|km}}.
+The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the [[Dardanelles]] (formerly known as the Hellespont), and the [[Gulf of Saros]] (formerly the bay of Melas). In [[ancient Greece|antiquity]], it was protected by the [[Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)|Long Wall]],<ref name="Brownson1921">{{cite book |author=Xenophon |author-link=Xenophon |url=https://archive.org/details/xenophonmemorabi00xeno |title=Hellenica, Volume II |date=January 1921 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=9780674990999 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |translator-last=Brownson |translator-first=Carleton L. |translator-link=Carleton Lewis Brownson |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Oldfather1933">{{cite book |author=Diodorus Siculus |author-link=Diodorus Siculus |url=https://archive.org/details/diodorussiculus09diod |title=Library of History, Volume I |date=January 1933 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=9780674993075 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |translator-last=Oldfather |translator-first=Charles H. |translator-link=Charles Henry Oldfather |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Pliny1855">{{cite book |author-last=Plinius Secundus |author-first=Gaius |author-link=Pliny the Elder |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&redirect=true |title=The Natural History |date=1855 |publisher=H. G. Bohn |editor-last1=Bostock |editor-first1=John |editor-link1=John Bostock (physician) |location=London |access-date=20 February 2021 |editor-last2=Riley |editor-first2=Henry Thomas |editor-link2=Henry Thomas Riley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224102938/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137&redirect=true |archive-date=24 February 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Plutarch1919">{{cite book |author=Plutarch |author-link=Plutarch |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0072%3Achapter%3D19%3Asection%3D1 |title=Lives |date=January 1919 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=9780674991101 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |language=grc |translator-last=Perrin |translator-first=Bernadotte |access-date=25 December 2021 |translator-link=Bernadotte Perrin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225185610/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0072:chapter%3D19:section%3D1 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> a defensive structure built across the narrowest part of the peninsula near the ancient city of [[Agora (Thrace)|Agora]]. The [[isthmus]] traversed by the wall was only 36 [[stadia (length)|stadia]] in breadth<ref name="herod_6.36_xen_3.2_scy_67">[[Herodotus]], ''The Histories'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=6.36 vi. 36]; Xenophon, ibid.; Pseudo-Scylax, ''[[Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax]]'', 67 ([http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/gjs/skylax_for_www_02214.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612100745/http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/gjs/skylax_for_www_02214.pdf |date=12 June 2009 }})</ref> or about {{cvt|6.5|km}}, but the length of the peninsula from this wall to its southern extremity, Cape Mastusia, was 420 stadia<ref name="herod_6.36_xen_3.2_scy_67"/> or about {{cvt|77.5|km}}.
 ==History==
+{{more citations needed|section|date=March 2026}}
 ===Antiquity and Middle Ages===
 [[File:Thracian Chersonese.svg|thumb|left|Map of the Thracian Chersonese]]
-In ancient times, the Gallipoli Peninsula was known as the [[Thracian Chersonese]] (from [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|χερσόνησος}}, 'peninsula'<ref name="lid" />) to the Greeks and later the Romans. It was the location of several prominent towns, including [[Cardia (Thrace)|Cardia]], [[Pactya]], Callipolis (Gallipoli), Alopeconnesus ({{lang|grc|Ἀλωπεκόννησος}}), [[Sestos]], [[Madytos (Thrace)|Madytos]], and [[Elaeus]]. The peninsula was renowned for its [[wheat]]. It also benefited from its strategic importance on the main route between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], as well as from its control of the shipping route from [[Crimea]]. The city of Sestos was the main crossing-point on the [[Hellespont]].
+In ancient times, the Gallipoli Peninsula was known as the [[Thracian Chersonese]] (from [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|χερσόνησος}}, 'peninsula'<ref name="lid" />) to the Greeks and later the Romans. It was the location of several prominent towns, including [[Cardia (Thrace)|Cardia]], [[Pactya]], Callipolis (Gallipoli), Alopeconnesus ({{lang|grc|Ἀλωπεκόννησος}}), [[Sestos]], [[Madytos (Thrace)|Madytos]], and [[Elaeus]]. The peninsula was renowned for its [[wheat]]. It also benefited from its strategic importance on the main route between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], as well as from its control of the shipping route from [[Crimea]]. The city of Sestos was the main crossing-point on the [[Hellespont]].{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-According to [[Herodotus]], the Thracian tribe of [[Dolonci]] ({{lang|grc|Δόλογκοι}}) (or 'barbarians' according to [[Cornelius Nepos]]) held possession of the peninsula before Greek colonizers arrived. Then, settlers from [[Ancient Greece]], mainly of [[Ionia]]n and [[Aeolians|Aeolian]] stock, founded about 12 cities on the peninsula in the 7th century BC.<ref name="herod_6.34_nepos_1">Herodotus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=6.34.1 vi. 34] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062722/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&redirect=true |date=25 April 2023 }}; [[Cornelius Nepos|Nepos, Cornelius]], ''Lives of Eminent Commanders'', "Miltiades", [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Miltiades 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107233658/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Miltiades |date=7 November 2017 }}</ref> The [[Classical Athens|Athenian]] statesman [[Miltiades the Elder]] founded a major Athenian colony there around 560 BC. He took authority over the entire peninsula, augmenting its defences against incursions from the mainland. It eventually passed to his nephew, the more famous [[Miltiades the Younger]], about 524 BC. The peninsula was abandoned to the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] in 493 BC after the beginning of the [[Greco-Persian Wars]] (499–478 BC).
+According to [[Herodotus]], the Thracian tribe of [[Dolonci]] ({{lang|grc|Δόλογκοι}}) (or 'barbarians' according to [[Cornelius Nepos]]) held possession of the peninsula before Greek colonizers arrived. Then, settlers from [[Ancient Greece]], mainly of [[Ionia]]n and [[Aeolians|Aeolian]] stock, founded about 12 cities on the peninsula in the 7th century BC.<ref name="herod_6.34_nepos_1">Herodotus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=6.34.1 vi. 34] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062722/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&redirect=true |date=25 April 2023 }}; [[Cornelius Nepos|Nepos, Cornelius]], ''Lives of Eminent Commanders'', "Miltiades", [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Miltiades 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107233658/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Miltiades |date=7 November 2017 }}</ref> The [[Classical Athens|Athenian]] statesman [[Miltiades the Elder]] founded a major Athenian colony there around 560 BC. He took authority over the entire peninsula, augmenting its defences against incursions from the mainland. It eventually passed to his nephew, the more famous [[Miltiades the Younger]], about 524 BC. The peninsula was abandoned to the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] in 493 BC after the beginning of the [[Greco-Persian Wars]] (499–478 BC).{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-The Persians were eventually expelled, after which the peninsula was for a time ruled by Athens, which enrolled it into the [[Delian League]] in 478 BC. The Athenians established a number of [[cleruchy|cleruchies]] on the Thracian Chersonese and sent an additional 1,000 settlers around 448 BC. [[Sparta]] gained control after the decisive [[Battle of Aegospotami]] in 404 BC, but the peninsula subsequently reverted to the Athenians. During the 4th century BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the focus of a bitter territorial dispute between Athens and [[Macedon]], whose king [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] sought its possession. It was eventually ceded to Philip in 338 BC.
+The Persians were eventually expelled, after which the peninsula was for a time ruled by Athens, which enrolled it into the [[Delian League]] in 478 BC. The Athenians established a number of [[cleruchy|cleruchies]] on the Thracian Chersonese and sent an additional 1,000 settlers around 448 BC. [[Sparta]] gained control after the decisive [[Battle of Aegospotami]] in 404 BC, but the peninsula subsequently reverted to the Athenians. During the 4th century BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the focus of a bitter territorial dispute between Athens and [[Macedon]], whose king [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] sought its possession. It was eventually ceded to Philip in 338 BC.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-After the death of Philip's son [[Alexander the Great]] in 323 BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the object of contention among [[Diadochi|Alexander's successors]]. [[Lysimachus]] established his capital [[Lysimachia (Thrace)|Lysimachia]] here. In 278 BC, [[List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes|Celtic tribes]] from [[Galatia]] in Asia Minor settled in the area. In 196 BC, the [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid]] king [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]] seized the peninsula. This alarmed the Greeks and prompted them to seek the aid of the [[Roman Republic|Romans]], who conquered the Thracian Chersonese, which they gave to their ally [[Eumenes II]] of [[Pergamon]] in 188 BC. At the extinction of the [[Attalid dynasty]] in 133 BC it passed again to the Romans, who from 129 BC administered it in the [[Roman province]] of [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]. It was subsequently made a state-owned territory ({{lang|la|[[ager publicus]]}}) and during the reign of the emperor [[Augustus]] it was imperial property.
+After the death of Philip's son [[Alexander the Great]] in 323 BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the object of contention among [[Diadochi|Alexander's successors]]. [[Lysimachus]] established his capital [[Lysimachia (Thrace)|Lysimachia]] here. In 278 BC, [[List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes|Celtic tribes]] from [[Galatia]] in Asia Minor settled in the area. In 196 BC, the [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid]] king [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]] seized the peninsula. This alarmed the Greeks and prompted them to seek the aid of the [[Roman Republic|Romans]], who conquered the Thracian Chersonese, which they gave to their ally [[Eumenes II]] of [[Pergamon]] in 188 BC. At the extinction of the [[Attalid dynasty]] in 133 BC it passed again to the Romans, who from 129 BC administered it in the [[Roman province]] of [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]. It was subsequently made a state-owned territory ({{lang|la|[[ager publicus]]}}) and during the reign of the emperor [[Augustus]] it was imperial property.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
 [[File:Gallipolimap2.png|thumb|Map of the peninsula and its surroundings]]
-The Thracian Chersonese was part of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] from its foundation in 395 AD. In 443 AD, [[Attila the Hun]] invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula during one of the last stages of his grand campaign that year. He captured both Callipolis and Sestus.<ref>{{cite book |title=Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-YN6NwHqq4C |publisher=Vintage |page=105 |isbn=978-1844139156 |date=2011 |access-date=3 May 2020 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=f-YN6NwHqq4C |url-status=live }}</ref> Aside from a brief period from 1204 to 1235, when it was controlled by the [[Republic of Venice]], the [[Byzantine Empire]] ruled the territory until 1356. During the night between 1 and 2 March 1354, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses.
+The Thracian Chersonese was part of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] from its foundation in 395 AD. In 443 AD, [[Attila the Hun]] invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula during one of the last stages of his grand campaign that year. He captured both Callipolis and Sestus.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-YN6NwHqq4C |title=Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire |date=2011 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-1844139156 |page=105 |access-date=3 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=f-YN6NwHqq4C |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Aside from a brief period from 1204 to 1235, when it was controlled by the [[Republic of Venice]], the [[Byzantine Empire]] ruled the territory until 1356. During the night between 1 and 2 March 1354, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
 ===Ottoman era===
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 ====Crimean War (1853–1856)====
 [[File:Port de Gallipoli.JPG|thumb|The port of Gallipoli, {{circa|1880}}]]
-Gallipoli became a major [[military camp|encampment]] for British and French forces in 1854 during the [[Crimean War]], and the harbour was also a stopping-off point between the western Mediterranean and [[Istanbul]] (formerly [[Constantinople]]).<ref name="Plus">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |title=Crimea |access-date=11 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222234538/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |archive-date=22 February 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Victorian">{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |title=Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852–1856: despatch |work=victorianweb.org |access-date=2 July 2006 |archive-date=28 November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128225126/http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Gallipoli became a major [[military camp|encampment]] for British and French forces in 1854 during the [[Crimean War]], and the harbour was also a stopping-off point between the western Mediterranean and [[Istanbul]] (formerly [[Constantinople]]).<ref name="Plus">{{Cite web |title=Crimea |url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222234538/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |archive-date=22 February 2006 |access-date=11 October 2006}}</ref><ref name="Victorian">{{cite web |title=Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852–1856: despatch |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128225126/http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |archive-date=28 November 2002 |access-date=2 July 2006 |work=victorianweb.org}}</ref>
-In March 1854 British and French engineers constructed an {{cvt|11.5|km}} line of defence to protect the peninsula from a possible Russian attack and secure control of the route to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Maj Gen Whitworth |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I |year=1889 |publisher=The Institution of Royal Engineers |location=Chatham}}</ref>{{rp|414}}
+In March 1854 British and French engineers constructed an {{cvt|11.5|km}} line of defence to protect the peninsula from a possible Russian attack and secure control of the route to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Maj Gen Whitworth |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I |publisher=The Institution of Royal Engineers |year=1889 |location=Chatham}}</ref>{{rp|414}}
 ====First Balkan War (1912–1913)====
-During the [[First Balkan War]], the 1913 [[Battle of Bulair]] and several minor skirmishes took place where the Ottoman army fought in the Greek villages near Gallipoli".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shirinian |first1=George N. |title=Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 |date=2017 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1785334320 |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Astourian |first1=Stephan |title=Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State |date=2020 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78920-450-6 |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062719/https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Carroll N |last2=Papadopoulos |first2=Alexander |title=Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war |date=1919 |publisher=Oxford university press |page=52 |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionsofgr00papa}}</ref> The [[Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars]] mention destruction and massacres in the area by the Ottoman army against Greek and Bulgarian population.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War |date=1914 |publisher=Washington, D.C. |page=132 |url=https://archive.org/details/reportofinternat00inteuoft/page/132/mode/2up}}</ref>
+During the [[First Balkan War]], the 1913 [[Battle of Bulair]] and several minor skirmishes took place where the Ottoman army fought in the Greek villages near Gallipoli".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shirinian |first1=George N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |title=Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 |date=2017 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1785334320 |page=42 |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=SlwEDQAAQBAJ |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Astourian |first1=Stephan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |title=Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State |date=2020 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78920-450-6 |page=192 |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062719/https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3UDwAAQBAJ |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Carroll N |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionsofgr00papa |title=Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European war |last2=Papadopoulos |first2=Alexander |date=1919 |publisher=Oxford university press |page=52}}</ref> The [[Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars]] mention destruction and massacres in the area by the Ottoman army against Greek and Bulgarian population.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/reportofinternat00inteuoft/page/132/mode/2up |title=Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War |date=1914 |publisher=Washington, D.C. |page=132}}</ref>
 The Ottoman Government, under the pretext that a village was within the firing line, ordered its evacuation within three hours. The residents abandoned everything they possessed, left their village and went to [[Gelibolu|Gallipoli]]. Seven of the Greek villagers who stayed two minutes later than the three-hour limit allowed for the evacuation were shot by the soldiers. After the end of the Balkan War the exiles were allowed to return. But as the Government allowed only the Turks to rebuild their houses and furnish them, the exiled Greeks were compelled to remain in Gallipoli.<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/>
-====World War I: Gallipoli Campaign (1914–1918)====
+====World War I: Gallipoli campaign (1914–1918)====
-{{Main|Gallipoli Campaign|Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site}}
+{{Main|Gallipoli campaign|Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site}}
 [[File:Landing at Gallipoli (13901951593).jpg|thumb|Landing at Gallipoli in April 1915]]
 [[File:Gallipoli ANZAC Cove Sphinx 2.JPG|thumb|The Sphinx overlooking Anzac Cove]]
-During World War I (1914–1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the [[Gallipoli campaign]] (1915–1916) in and near the peninsula, seeking to secure a sea route to relieve their eastern ally, [[Imperial Russia|Russia]]. The Ottomans set up defensive fortifications along the peninsula and contained the invading forces.
+During World War I (1914–1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the [[Gallipoli campaign]] (1915–1916) in and near the peninsula, seeking to secure a sea route to relieve their eastern ally, [[Imperial Russia|Russia]]. The Ottomans set up defensive fortifications along the peninsula and contained the invading forces.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-24 |title=Gallipoli from a different perspective - The story of a single soldier, Paul Nowarka |url=https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/gallipoli-from-a-different-perspective |access-date=2026-05-06 |website=www.europeana.eu |language=en-GB}}</ref>
-In early 1915, attempting to seize a strategic advantage in World War I by capturing the [[Bosporus Strait]] at [[Istanbul]] (formerly [[Constantinople]]), the British authorised an attack on the peninsula by French, British, and British Empire forces. The first Australian troops landed at [[ANZAC Cove]] early in the morning of 25 April 1915. After eight months of heavy fighting the last Allied soldiers withdrew by 9 January 1916.
+In early 1915, attempting to seize a strategic advantage in World War I by capturing the [[Bosporus Strait]] at [[Istanbul]] (formerly [[Constantinople]]), the British authorised an attack on the peninsula by French, British, and British Empire forces. The first Australian troops landed at [[ANZAC Cove]] early in the morning of 25 April 1915. After eight months of heavy fighting the last Allied soldiers withdrew by 9 January 1916.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
 The campaign, one of the greatest [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] victories during the war, is considered by historians as a humiliating [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] failure. [[Turkey|Turks]] regard it as a defining moment in their nation's history and national identity,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallipoli: a Turkish view {{!}} Australian War Memorial |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/gallipoli#:~:text=The%20events%20of%201915%20created,status%20within%20Turkey's%20national%20identity |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=www.awm.gov.au}}</ref> contributing to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey eight years later under President [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], who first rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli.
-The Ottoman Empire instituted the [[Gallipoli Star (Ottoman Empire)|Gallipoli Star]] as a military decoration in 1915 and awarded it throughout the rest of World War I.
+The Ottoman Empire instituted the [[Gallipoli Star (Ottoman Empire)|Gallipoli Star]] as a military decoration in 1915 and awarded it throughout the rest of World War I.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallipoli Star badge, 1915 |url=https://www.lbi.org/griffinger/record/415074 |access-date=2026-03-15 |website=www.lbi.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
-The campaign was the first major military action of [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] (or [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZACs]]) as independent [[dominion]]s, setting a foundation for Australian and New Zealand military history, and contributing to their developing national identities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 June 2024 |title=Chapter 1 - The Significance of the Gallipoli Peninsula |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/gallipoli/report/d01b#:~:text=The%20national%20significance%20of%20the,and%20remembrance%2C%20into%20iconic%20status. |website=Parliament of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallipoli in brief {{!}} NZ History |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/gallipoli-in-brief#:~:text=In%20New%20Zealand%20(and%20Australia,grew%20out%20of%20this%20pride. |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=nzhistory.govt.nz}}</ref> The date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "[[Anzac Day|ANZAC Day]]". It remains the most significant commemoration of military casualties and [[veteran|"returned soldiers"]] in Australia and New Zealand.
+The campaign was the first major military action of [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] (or [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZACs]]) as independent [[dominion]]s, setting a foundation for Australian and New Zealand military history, and contributing to their developing national identities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 June 2024 |title=Chapter 1 - The Significance of the Gallipoli Peninsula |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/gallipoli/report/d01b#:~:text=The%20national%20significance%20of%20the,and%20remembrance%2C%20into%20iconic%20status. |website=Parliament of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallipoli in brief {{!}} NZ History |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/gallipoli-in-brief#:~:text=In%20New%20Zealand%20(and%20Australia,grew%20out%20of%20this%20pride. |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=nzhistory.govt.nz}}</ref> The date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "[[Anzac Day|ANZAC Day]]". It remains the most significant commemoration of military casualties and [[veteran|"returned soldiers"]] in Australia and New Zealand.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-On the Allied side, one of the promoters of the expedition was Britain's [[First Lord of the Admiralty]], [[Winston Churchill]], whose bullish optimism caused damage to his reputation that took years to repair.
+On the Allied side, one of the promoters of the expedition was Britain's [[First Lord of the Admiralty]], [[Winston Churchill]], whose bullish optimism caused damage to his reputation that took years to repair.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-Prior to the Allied landings in April 1915,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5HzkboGvcC |title=The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power |first=Sean |last=McMeekin |date=7 May 2012 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674058538 |via=Google Books |access-date=25 November 2021 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062721/https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5HzkboGvcC |url-status=live }}</ref> the Ottoman Empire deported [[Ottoman Greeks|Greek residents]] from Gallipoli and the surrounding region and from the islands in the [[sea of Marmara]], to the interior where they were at the mercy of hostile Turks.<ref name="Terrible Fate">{{cite book |last=Lieberman |first=Benjamin |title=Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlfAgAAQBAJ |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |date=December 2013 |pages=96–97 |isbn=978-1442223196 |access-date=3 May 2020 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062722/https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlfAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Greeks had little time to pack and the Ottoman authorities permitted them to take only some bedding and the rest was handed over to the Government.<ref name="Terrible Fate"/> The Turks then plundered the houses and properties.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/128395/the-meaning-of-gallipoli-to-hellenism/ |title=The Meaning of Gallipoli to Hellenism |access-date=15 October 2017 |archive-date=15 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015202301/https://www.thenationalherald.com/128395/the-meaning-of-gallipoli-to-hellenism/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A testimony of a deportee described how the deportees were forced onto crowded steamers, standing-room only, then on disembarking, men of military age were removed (for forced labour in the [[labour Battalions (Ottoman Empire)|labour battalions]] of the Ottoman army).
+Prior to the Allied landings in April 1915,<ref>{{Cite book |last=McMeekin |first=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5HzkboGvcC |title=The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power |date=7 May 2012 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674058538 |access-date=25 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062721/https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5HzkboGvcC |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live |via=Google Books}}</ref> the Ottoman Empire deported [[Ottoman Greeks|Greek residents]] from Gallipoli and the surrounding region and from the islands in the [[sea of Marmara]], to the interior where they were at the mercy of hostile Turks.<ref name="Terrible Fate">{{cite book |last=Lieberman |first=Benjamin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlfAgAAQBAJ |title=Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe |date=December 2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1442223196 |pages=96–97 |access-date=3 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062722/https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlfAgAAQBAJ |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Greeks had little time to pack and the Ottoman authorities permitted them to take only some bedding and the rest was handed over to the Government.<ref name="Terrible Fate"/> The Turks then plundered the houses and properties.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Meaning of Gallipoli to Hellenism |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/128395/the-meaning-of-gallipoli-to-hellenism/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015202301/https://www.thenationalherald.com/128395/the-meaning-of-gallipoli-to-hellenism/ |archive-date=15 October 2017 |access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref> A testimony of a deportee described how the deportees were forced onto crowded steamers, standing-room only, then on disembarking, men of military age were removed (for forced labour in the [[labour Battalions (Ottoman Empire)|labour battalions]] of the Ottoman army).{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-The [[Metropolitan bishop]] of Gallipoli wrote on 17 July 1915 that the extermination of the Christian refugees was methodical.<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionofgre00consrich |title=Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey, 1914–1918 |date=1919 |publisher=Constantinople [London, Printed by the Hesperia Press]}}</ref> He also mentions that "The Turks, like beasts of prey, immediately plundered all the Christians' property and carried it off. The inhabitants and refugees of my district are entirely without shelter, awaiting to be sent no one knows where ...".<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/> Many Greeks died from hunger and there were frequent cases of rape of women and young girls, as well as their forced conversion to [[Islam]].<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/> In some cases, [[Muhacirs]] appeared in the villages even before the Greek inhabitants were deported and stoned the houses and threatened the inhabitants that they would kill them if they did not leave.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Benny |last2=Ze'evi |first2=Dror |title=The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THSPDwAAQBAJ&q=greek%2BGallipoli%2Bdeportee |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=April 2019 |page=338 |isbn=978-0674916456 |access-date=3 May 2021 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=THSPDwAAQBAJ&q=greek%2BGallipoli%2Bdeportee |url-status=live }}</ref>
+The [[Metropolitan bishop]] of Gallipoli wrote on 17 July 1915 that the extermination of the Christian refugees was methodical.<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionofgre00consrich |title=Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey, 1914–1918 |date=1919 |publisher=Constantinople [London, Printed by the Hesperia Press]}}</ref> He also mentions that "The Turks, like beasts of prey, immediately plundered all the Christians' property and carried it off. The inhabitants and refugees of my district are entirely without shelter, awaiting to be sent no one knows where ...".<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/> Many Greeks died from hunger and there were frequent cases of rape of women and young girls, as well as their forced conversion to [[Islam]].<ref name="Persecution_of_the_Greeks_in_Turkey_1914_1918"/> In some cases, [[Muhacirs]] appeared in the villages even before the Greek inhabitants were deported and stoned the houses and threatened the inhabitants that they would kill them if they did not leave.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Benny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THSPDwAAQBAJ&q=greek%2BGallipoli%2Bdeportee |title=The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 |last2=Ze'evi |first2=Dror |date=April 2019 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674916456 |page=338 |access-date=3 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425062720/https://books.google.com/books?id=THSPDwAAQBAJ&q=greek%2BGallipoli%2Bdeportee |archive-date=25 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 ====Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)====
-Greek troops occupied Gallipoli on 4 August 1920 during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22]], considered part of the [[Turkish War of Independence]]. After the [[Armistice of Mudros]] of 30 October 1918 it became a Greek prefecture centre as ''Kallipolis''. However, Greece was forced to cede Eastern Thrace after the [[Armistice of Mudanya]] of October 1922. Gallipoli was briefly handed over to British troops on 20 October 1922, but finally returned to Turkish rule on 26 November 1922.
+Greek troops occupied Gallipoli on 4 August 1920 during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22]], considered part of the [[Turkish War of Independence]]. After the [[Armistice of Mudros]] of 30 October 1918 it became a Greek prefecture centre as ''Kallipolis''. However, Greece was forced to cede Eastern Thrace after the [[Armistice of Mudanya]] of October 1922. Gallipoli was briefly handed over to British troops on 20 October 1922, but finally returned to Turkish rule on 26 November 1922.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-In 1920, after the defeat of the [[White movement|Russian White army]] of General [[Pyotr Wrangel]], a significant number of [[White émigré|émigré soldiers]] and their families evacuated to Gallipoli from the [[Crimean Peninsula]]. From there, many went to European countries, such as [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], where they found refuge.
+==== White Russian exiles (1920-1923) ====
+In November 1920, after the defeat of the [[White movement|Russian White army]] of General [[Pyotr Wrangel]], [[Wrangel's fleet]] evacuated a significant number of [[White émigré|émigré soldiers]] and their families to Constantinople from the [[Crimean Peninsula]] in over 130 vessels; 26,590  of the refugees transferred to Gallipoli.<ref>
+{{cite book
+ |last1                = Shmelev
+ |first1               = Anatol
+ |editor-last1         = Macleod
+ |editor-first1        = Jenny
+ |date                 = 3 November 2008
+ |chapter              = Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920—1923
+ |title                = Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era
+ |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=jy5-DAAAQBAJ
+ |publication-place    = Basingstoke
+ |publisher            = Springer
+ |pages                = 195 - 213
+ |isbn                 = 9780230582798
+ |access-date          = 19 May 2026
+}}
+</ref><ref>
+{{cite book
+ |last1                = Robinson
+ |first1               = Paul
+ |year                 = 2002
+ |title                = The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941
+ |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=jbhpAAAAMAAJ
+ |series               = Oxford historical monographs
+ |edition              = reprint
+ |publication-place    = Oxford
+ |publisher            = Clarendon Press
+ |isbn                 = 9780199250219
+ |access-date          = 19 May 2026
+}}
+</ref>
+The "{{ill|Gallipoli internment|ru|Галлиполийское сидение}}" involved a camp near the city of Gelibolu, occupied from November 1920 until May 1922. From Gallipoli, many White Russian officers and men dispersed westward to places such as [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], Brazil and Bulgaria, where they found refuge.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-There are now many [[list of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula|cemeteries and war memorials]] on the Gallipoli peninsula.
+There are now many [[list of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula|cemeteries and war memorials]] on the Gallipoli peninsula.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
 ===Turkish Republic===
-Between 1923 and 1926 Gallipoli became the centre of Gelibolu Province, comprising the districts of Gelibolu, [[Eceabat]], [[Keşan]] and [[Şarköy]]. After the dissolution of the province, it became a district centre in [[Çanakkale Province]].
+Between 1923 and 1926 Gallipoli became the centre of Gelibolu Province, comprising the districts of Gelibolu, [[Eceabat]], [[Keşan]] and [[Şarköy]]. After the dissolution of the province, it became a district centre in [[Çanakkale Province]].{{cn|date=January 2026}}
+=== Tourism significance ===
+Today, the Gallipoli Peninsula is one of Turkey's most visited historical destinations, attracting hundreds of thousands of domestic and international visitors every year. The Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park preserves battlefields, cemeteries, and memorials of the Gallipoli Campaign, and ANZAC Day (25 April) ceremonies draw large numbers of Australians and New Zealanders. Various tour operators offer guided tours of the battlefields, memorials, and museums to help visitors understand the significance of the campaign.
+<ref>{{cite web |title=Visiting Gallipoli |url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkey/gallipoli |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=Lonely Planet}}</ref>
 ==Notable people==
-*[[Ahmed Bican]] (1398 – {{circa|1466}}), author
+* [[Ahmed Bican]] (1398 – {{circa|1466}}), author{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-*[[Piri Reis]] (1465/70 – 1553<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/821/10412.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206015913/http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/821/10412.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-06 |url-status=live |title=Ana Sayfa}}</ref>), admiral, geographer and cartographer
+* [[Piri Reis]] (1465/70 – 1553<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ana Sayfa |url=http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/821/10412.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206015913/http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/821/10412.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-06}}</ref>), admiral, geographer and cartographer
-*[[Mustafa Âlî]] (1541–1600), Ottoman historian, politician and writer
+* [[Mustafa Âlî]] (1541–1600), Ottoman historian, politician and writer{{cn|date=January 2026}}
-*[[Sofia Vembo]] (1910–1978), Greek singer and actress
+* [[Sofia Vembo]] (1910–1978), Greek singer and actress{{cn|date=January 2026}}
 ==References==
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 {{Commons category|Gallipoli (Turkey)}}
 {{Wiktionary|Gallipoli}}
+* {{Wikivoyage inline|Gallipoli}}
-*{{Wikivoyage inline|Gallipoli}}
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110524001248/http://e-turkey.net/v/canakkale_gallipoli/ Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park photos with info]
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110524001248/http://e-turkey.net/v/canakkale_gallipoli/ Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park photos with info]
+* [https://rsltours.com/ Tours of Gallipoli] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817172634/https://rsltours.com/ |date=17 August 2020 }}
-*[https://rsltours.com/ Tours of Gallipoli] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817172634/https://rsltours.com/ |date=17 August 2020 }}
+* [http://www.abc.net.au/ww1-anzac/gallipoli/ Australia's role in the Gallipoli Campaign – Website (ABC and Dept of Veteran's Affairs)]
-*[http://www.abc.net.au/ww1-anzac/gallipoli/ Australia's role in the Gallipoli Campaign – Website (ABC and Dept of Veteran's Affairs)]
+* [https://www.gallipolitour.com/ Gallipoli Tour – Information and Guided Tours]
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