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Canakkale is a city and a county in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale. It is located on the peninsula of Gallipoli in the European part of the province. The city is located on the Dardanelles ( Hellespont in ancient times ) compared to the provincial capital of Çanakkale. It is the starting point of the ferry that connects the course of the E -87 Europe and Asia. The ferry overcomes a distance of about 5.5 kilometers. In 2011 the town had 5,293 inhabitants, 9,088 of the district.

The county forms the southern part of the Gallipoli peninsula, in the north- east it borders on Gallipoli. About four kilometers south of Canakkale Kilitbahir is the place with the same fortress, there the Dardanelles with 1.3 kilometers of its narrowest part. On the other side of the peninsula, about eight kilometers west of the city, leading from the place Kabatepe a ferry to the island GOKCEADA.

History

Canakkale is located on the site of the ancient Madytos. Because of its location at the narrowest point of the Hellespont the field came at the southern end of the peninsula already in ancient times is of particular importance. Alexander the Great sat on his campaign to Asia over here, as the Ottomans in the opposite direction to the conquest of Thrace and ultimately Constantinople. In World War I it arrived here in February 1915 to the Battle of Gallipoli. Their battlefields are still shown as landmarks.

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