Gallipoli, Also Gelibolu, Kallipolis

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Gallipoliجاليبولي

The straits where the Ottomans held back the Allied invasion of 1915.

In 1915 Britain and France tried to force the Dardanelles and take Istanbul. Ottoman troops held the peninsula through months of slaughter, and Mustafa Kemal made his name here. The empire survived the battle but not the war.

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