Gelibolu (Gallipoli) · Çanakkale
The Battlefield of Gallipoli
Between February 1915 and January 1916, Allied and Ottoman forces fought a grinding campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, with the first landings on 25 April 1915 marking the start of a battle that became a founding memory for Australia and New Zealand.
Aus der Quelle
The Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey), site of the 1915 Allied amphibious landings and the protracted trench campaign against Ottoman forces in the First World War.
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The Gallipoli campaign was an Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles Strait and open a route to Constantinople, but it ended in a costly Ottoman victory after ten months of stalemate along ridgelines and beaches including Anzac Cove, Cape Helles and Suvla Bay. The peninsula has been protected since 1973 as the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park, covering more than 33,000 hectares of cemeteries, memorials and former battlefield terrain administered by Turkey's Canakkale Wars and Gallipoli Historic Region Directorate. Since 2014 the site has also been on Turkey's UNESCO tentative list, under the title Canakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War, though it has not yet been inscribed on the full World Heritage List.
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Gallipoli combines a dramatic coastal and ridge landscape with one of the most extensive networks of war cemeteries and memorials anywhere, and 25 April remains a day of pilgrimage for Australian and New Zealand visitors marking Anzac Day.