The invasion of Gallipoli, a peninsula squeezed between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles in what is now ... the new data on a highly detailed 1916 map compiled by Ottoman cartographers ...

The beach here is wide, the route march eastwards to the Dardanelles over ... that in front of a giant map of the battlefield. "There are four phases of the Gallipoli campaign," he says.

The strait on its southern shore is the Dardanelles—or ... In short, a glance at Gallipoli on a map will tell you why it was doomed to be a bone of contention on which nation-states would ...

On April 25, 1915 allied forces landed in what is typically called the Gallipoli or Dardanelles Campaign (Battle of Canakkale by Turkey). London admitted defeat and withdrew its forces eight and a ...

ISTANBUL - The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign ... The fighting happened near the mouth of the Dardanelles strait, part of a conduit between the Mediterranean Sea and the ...

Map showing allies’ planned offensive against the Ottoman Empire. Sea battle at the entrance to the Dardanelles. War Memorial at Gallipoli. War graves. The reporter is Colm Connolly.