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13 unusual facts about Dardanelles


Action of 14 April 1655

After sailing back and forth between Sardinia, Tunis and Sicily for nearly two months, and sending the demands again, he arrived at Porto Farina, where the Barbary ships had gathered for their intended voyage to the Dardanelles to help the Turks that season, on 13 April.

Alexander Parvus

He managed to help prevent Russian naval Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak from taking on his offensive against the Turko-German Fleet in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles by planning the sabotage of a major Russian warship.

Ali Rıza Seyfi

He attended the Kasımpaşa Naval Elementary School and served at various posts in Basra, with the fleet in the Dardanelles, at the Naval Science Commission and at Tripoli as a naval officer after 1892.

Évariste Lévi-Provençal

He studied at the Lycée in Constantine, and served in the French army during World War I, being wounded in the Dardanelles in 1917.

Fall of the Serbian Empire

Followed by their penetration into Thrace, in 1354 they acquired Gallipoli on the European side of the Dardanelles.

Fight for the Dardanelles

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps to assist understanding.

Mihir Sen

In August 24, he crossed the Straits of Gibraltar in eight hours and one minute, and a month later, became the world's first man to swim across the Dardanelles in 13 hours and 55 minutes.

Morean War

Thus strengthened, he was able to move against the last major Ottoman bastion in the Peloponnese, the town of Patras and the fort of Rion, which along with its twin at Antirrion controlled the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf (the "Little Dardanelles").

Rowland Langmaid

His artistic abilities led to him sketching landings in the Dardanelles where he served aboard the battleship HMS Agamemnon.

Royal Irish Fusiliers

The 6th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers received orders to embark for service in the Dardanelles on 9 July 1915 as part of the 31st Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division.

Truman Doctrine

At the conclusion of World War II, Stalin demanded partial control of the Dardanelles, a strategic passage between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

Vandalic War

The fleet left the Dardanelles on 1 July, and crossed the Aegean Sea to the port of Methone, where it was joined by the last contingents of troops.

Walter Gilbey

On the outbreak of the Crimean War, Walter Gilbey and his younger brother, Alfred, volunteered for civilian service at the front, and were employed at a convalescent hospital on the Dardanelles.


Beaufort Hospital

In his Annual Report for that year, Alderman George Pearson, chairman of the Asylum Committee of Visitors, recorded that the hospital had urgently been called into military use because the other Bristol hospitals could not cope with the increasing numbers of wounded being sent from the Western Front, and more recently from the Dardanelles.

Chanak Crisis

The Chanak Crisis, also called the Chanak Affair and the Chanak Incident, in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops on British and French troops stationed near Çanakkale (Chanak) to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone.

Courtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

The campaign lasted eight months and was fought by British Empire and French forces against the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.

French ship Bouvet

Bouvet, a Jauréguiberry-class battleship sunk by a mine in the Dardanelles during WWI

French ship Duguay-Trouin

The soldier-poet Rupert Brooke died aboard en route to the Dardanelles on 23 April 1915 at Trebuki Bay, Skyros

George Biddlecombe

When attached to the Talbot, 1838–42, he surveyed numerous anchorages on the Ionian station, in the Archipelago, and up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus; examined the south shore of the Black Sea as far as Trabzon, as well as the port of Varna, and prepared a survey, published by the admiralty, of the bays and banks of Akko.

Hellenic Navy

To that end, its commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, established a forward base at the Moudros bay at Lemnos, directly opposite the Dardanelles straits.

Hubert Garrett

According to his obituary in the 1916 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Garrett was killed while serving as a lieutenant in the 9th service battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment in the Dardanelles campaign.

Lorenzo Marcello

Lorenzo Marcello (Venice, 1603 – Dardanelles, 26 June 1656) was a Venetian admiral.

Mükrime Hatun

The most distinguished nobles of the land escorted the young girl across the mountains to the former Ottoman capital of Bursa, where the judges, the ülema and the sheikhs of the religious orders came to meet her in solemn procession and then onward across the Dardanelles.

Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau

Tensions began to escalate when Ottoman Empire closed the Dardanelles to all shipping on 27 September, blocking Russia's exit from the Black Sea—the Black Sea route accounted for over 90% of Russia's import and export traffic.

Richard Bell-Davies

Davies was then posted to the Dardanelles, and was awarded the Victoria Cross on 1 January 1916 for an action at Ferrijik Junction, in Bulgaria near the border with Ottoman-controlled Europe, on 19 November 1915.

Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky

In 1827–1830 lieutenant Voyevodsky served on Jezekiel, a ship-of-the-line of count Login Geiden's Mediterranean squadron; he participated in the Battle of Navarino in October 1827 and in the naval blockade of the Dardanelles during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829.

William Charles Williams

There are two memorials to him in Chepstow - a painting by Charles Dixon of the events in the Dardanelles, hanging in St Mary's Church; and a naval gun from the German submarine SM UB-91 presented by King George V, which stands in the town's main square beside the war memorial.