Gallipoli

[guh-lip-uh-lee]

noun

1. a peninsula in NW European Turkey, extending between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. 50 miles (80 km) long.

2. a port in NW Turkey.

Gallipoli

/ ɡəˈlɪpəlɪ /

noun

1. a peninsula in NW Turkey, between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros: scene of a costly but unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915

2. a port in NW Turkey, at the entrance to the Sea of Marmara: historically important for its strategic position. Pop: 22 000 (latest est)

Example Sentences

Australia and New Zealand already have a longstanding "Anzac bond", he said, pointing to their history fighting side-by-side at Gallipoli in World War One.

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Somehow, the same bloke responsible for Australian classics like “Gallipoli” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock” was also the director of very American favorites like “Dead Poets Society” and “The Truman Show.”

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But the biggest blow to the Allied cause in 1915 was the failure of the Gallipoli campaign, an attempt to force Turkey out of the war and to open a supply route from the Mediterranean to southern Russia.

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The Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey commanded the entrance to the heavily fortified Dardanelles, the narrow waterway connecting the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea and Russia beyond.

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April 25 is the date in 1915 when the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, in northwest Turkey, in an ill-fated campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.

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