Canakkale Attractions
Marmara region (Dardanelles)
Çanakkale is the principal town on the Dardanelles (Çanakkale Bogazi), situated at the narrowest point (1,244m/1,360yds) of this busy strait. It is the administrative center of the province of Çanakkale, which broadly corresponds to the ancient Troas, and is the starting-point for visits to Troy and to the scene of the fighting during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915.
Çanakkale (Pottery Castle), so called after the ceramics industry which formerly flourished here, is a relatively recent town with few buildings of any interest, particularly since an earthquake which caused heavy damage in 1912. On the west side of the fairly cramped central area of the town is the harbor, from which there is a ferry service across the Dardanelles to Eceabat on the European side.
Çanakkale is the principal town on the Dardanelles (Çanakkale Bogazi), situated at the narrowest point (1,244m/1,360yds) of this busy strait. It is the administrative center of the province of Çanakkale, which broadly corresponds to the ancient Troas, and is the starting-point for visits to Troy and to the scene of the fighting during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915.
Çanakkale (Pottery Castle), so called after the ceramics industry which formerly flourished here, is a relatively recent town with few buildings of any interest, particularly since an earthquake which caused heavy damage in 1912. On the west side of the fairly cramped central area of the town is the harbor, from which there is a ferry service across the Dardanelles to Eceabat on the European side.
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Çanakkale-Bogazi - Dardanelles
The Dardanelles, the straits separating the Gelibolu (Gallipoli) peninsula and mainland Europe, are surrounded in Greek legends, myths, and history.
Alexandreia Troas
The ruins of ancient Alexandreia Troas, often just called Troas (present-day Eskiistanbul) occupy a now lonely site 80km/50mi or so south of Çanakkale near Ezine. An important city at the time of Lysimachos, the massive remains date mainly from the Roman period. (Note the therme with its lovely portal).
Nara, Turkey
(Near Canakkale)
About 8km/5mi north of Çanakkale is Nara, on Nara Burun, which is believed to occupy the site of ancient Nagara. The cape is the second narrowest point (1,450m/1,590yd) on the Dardanelles, which here turn south. In ancient times, when this was the narrowest part of the Dardanelles, some 1,300m/1,420yd wide, it was known as the Heptastadion (Seven Statia) and was crossed by a ferry. It was here that Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Turks (1356) crossed the straits into Europe.
Seddülbahir
About 30km/19mi south of Eceabat, near the village of Abide, the Ottoman fortress of Seddülbahir, constructed in 1657, faces Kumkale Fort on the opposite (Asian) shore. Built to guard the southern entrance to the Dardanelles, both forts are now in a restricted military zone. On the east side of the small bay where once the ancient town of Elaios stood, are Turkish and Allied war memorials and cemeteries (1915/16).
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