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Revision as of 16:31, 7 December 2001 by 62.253.64.xxx (talk) (stub)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Peninsula in southern Turkey. With the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.
Scene of an bloody Allied campaign during WW I, an attempt to to push through the Dardanelles straits and capture Constantinople. The campaign ended in stalemate with the Allies evacuated after fighting from April 25 to December (or January) 1915. There were around 180,000 Allied casualties and 220,000 Turkish casualties.