Dardanelles
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Map showing the location of the Dardanelles (yellow), relative to the Bosporus (red), the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. thumb|right|250px|View of the Dardanelles taken from the Landsat 7 satellite in September 2006. The body of water on the left is the Aegean Sea, while the one on the upper right is the Sea of Marmara. The Dardanelles is the tapered waterway running diagonally between the two seas, from the northeast to the southwest. The long, narrow upper peninsula on the northern shores of the strait is Gallipoli (), and constitutes the banks of the co
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The Dardanelles is a narrow waterway that connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, located between Europe and Asia Minor. It serves as a crucial passage linking the Mediterranean region to the Sea of Marmara and beyond, making it strategically important for maritime traffic and regional geography.
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19 sectionsContents
- Names
- Geography
- Present morphology
- History
- Ancient Dardanian, Persian, Roman, and Byzantine eras (pre-1454)
- Dardanian and Persian history
- Byzantine history
- Ottoman era (1354–1922)
- Nineteenth century
- World War I
- Turkish republican and modern eras (1923–present)
- Crossings
- Maritime
- Land
- Subsea
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|250px|Map showing the location of the Dardanelles (yellow), relative to the Bosporus (red), the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. thumb|right|250px|View of the Dardanelles taken from the Landsat 7 satellite in September 2006. The body of water on the left is the Aegean Sea, while the one on the upper right is the Sea of Marmara. The Dardanelles is the tapered waterway running diagonally between the two seas, from the northeast to the southwest. The long, narrow upper peninsula on the northern shores of the strait is Gallipoli (), and constitutes the banks of the continent of Europe, while the lower peninsula is Troad () and constitutes the banks of the continent of Asia. The city of Çanakkale is visible along the shores of the lower peninsula, centered at the only point where a sharp outcropping juts into the otherwise-linear Dardanelles.
The Dardanelles ( ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey. Together with the Bosporus, the Dardanelles forms the Turkish Straits.