Thursday, August 7

Gallipoli Guide

The world-I battlefields known as Gallipoli are only 15 km west of Canakkale. It is located on the European side of Turkey, where as Çanakkale in the Asia-site. Gallipoli is the name of a city 40 kilometers east of the battlefield, and it is called in Turkish Gelibolu, where the name comes from.

It was here, and for eight months in 1915 soldiers from all corners of the planet fought Mainy from SE Asia, against the Turks in an effort to open the Dardanelles for its war vessels. But Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his army defeded the Western allies very bad, and they could not in a position to pass the canal. This war is also known as gentlemes "war, very long and very close fights, the trenches just 10 meters beside each other.

A visit to the battlefields, cemeteries and the museum has become a "must" place of pilgrimage for Australians and New Zealanders visit Turkey. Daily guided tours through the operation of battelfields Çanakkale. The best time to visit the 25th April, in which all people come together and remember that most bloody war of human Art Total 250,000 soldiers lost their lives.

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