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Eceabat
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Eceabat (), formerly Maydos (; now usually ), is a small town in Çanakkale Province in the Marmara region of Turkey, located on the eastern shore of the Gallipoli Peninsula, facing the Dardanelles Strait. It is the seat of Eceabat District. Its population is 5,636 (2021). The town lies at sea level. It is an almost entirely modern town.
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Place details
- Locality
- Eceabat
- Region
- Canakkale
- Country
- Türkiye
- Population
- 5,120
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
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Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Eceabat
- Turkey place.other_name
- Maydos
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Eceabat Kilitbahir Fortress.JPG
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Kilitbahir Castle built by Mehmed II Fatih in 1452
- Turkey place.province
- Çanakkale
- Turkey place.district
- Eceabat
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Saim Zileli
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 0
- Turkey place.population_total
- 5636
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0286
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
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Eceabat (), formerly Maydos (; now usually ), is a small town in Çanakkale Province in the Marmara region of Turkey, located on the eastern shore of the Gallipoli Peninsula, facing the Dardanelles Strait. It is the seat of Eceabat District. Its population is 5,636 (2021). The town lies at sea level. It is an almost entirely modern town.
Eceabat is the departure point for the annual swim across the Hellespont to Çanakkale on the other side of the Dardanelles Strait.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eceabat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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