Çanakkale Wars Gallipoli Historical Site - Çanakkale

Çanakkale Wars Gallipoli Historical Site is located in the northwest of the Marmara Region, within the borders of Çanakkale province. Most of it is on the border of Eceabat district. There are many martyrdoms, cemeteries, museums and monuments within the boundaries of the Historic Area, which covers an area of ​​33,444 hectares. Eceabat is connected to Çanakkale Province in the south of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The district is surrounded by the Dardanelles Strait in the east and the Aegean Sea in the west and south. It is one of the transition points where the Asian and European continents separate from each other.

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The most visited battlefield in Turkey is the Historical Site located within the borders of Çanakkale province. During the First World War, one of the biggest wars that took place between the Allied Powers and the Ottoman Empire was the Battle of Gallipoli.

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138 civil architecture examples, 49 monumental structures, 50 Turkish martyrdoms, 29 Turkish monuments and epitaphs, 34 foreign cemeteries and monuments and historical structures such as castles and bastions in the area constitute a great potential in terms of faith tourism. A wide variety of "natural sites and monuments" include beaches, coves, mixed groves with Mediterranean shrubs (maquis), striking geological and geomorphological formations, and a salt lake (Suvla).

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In addition to the sunken ships, cannons, trenches, castles, bastions and hundreds of war-related remains in the area, there are XV. There is a cultural heritage collection that includes examples of 19th century military architecture. The area in question stands out as one of the rare battlefields that have been preserved throughout the world.

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Çanakkale and Gallipoli World War I sites were accepted as one of the important points affecting world history and were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2014.

Photograph: Çanakkale Wars Gallipoli Historical Site Presidency

The Historical Area, where the most striking traces of the Battle of Çanakkale, which took place between November 3, 1914 and January 9, 1916, can be seen, is almost an open-air museum. It is possible to see the traces of the 1915 Battles at every step taken. Real doubts graves, trenches, military road routes, castles, bastions, monuments… All of them reflect the traces of the war in a palpable way. The number of visitors on the Gallipoli Peninsula, where the Battle of Çanakkale, where a nation struggles to exist with all its aspects, took place, increases exponentially every year.

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With both national and international results, the Çanakkale Front ceased to be a front of the First World War and took a special place in world history. As a result of the struggle given as a nation, our rightful pride, whose foundation was laid in 1915, is maintained with the ceremonies held every year in these lands where victory was won. The fact that the warring parties have come together for years on commemoration days and pointed to world peace is an example to the world. Uniforms, flags and banners are of different colors in the Battle of Çanakkale, which cost thousands of lives for both states; But the pain that is written in the history of every country is the only color.