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In other cases, the sides adopted different names for the same battle, such as the Battle of Gallipoli which is known in Turkey as the Battle of Çanakkale.
The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; ) is located in Turkish Thrace ( or East Thrace ), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.
The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.
The campaign is the subject of the 2005 documentary Gallipoli by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek showing the bravery and the suffering on both sides through the use of surviving diaries and soldier's letters.
Gallipoli is the basis for the 1999 novel Solomon's Song by Bryce Courtenay.
The Saros Bay is located near the Gallipoli peninsula and is famous for its clean beaches.
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, originally commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
He is given control over the Thracian Chersonese ( the modern Gallipoli peninsula ) and over most of the former Seleucid possessions in Anatolia.
* Chersonesos: The Gallipoli Peninsula, it is mentioned by the Chorus as the sort of place where Cleon fishes for people he can put on trial in Athens ( line 262 )
The 1980s is often regarded as a golden age of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the historical drama of Gallipoli, to the dark science fiction of Mad Max, the romantic adventure of The Man From Snowy River or the comedy of Crocodile Dundee.
Other well-known singers of Australian folk music include Rolf Harris ( who wrote " Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport "), John Williamson, and Eric Bogle whose 1972 song " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " is a sorrowful lament to the Gallipoli Campaign.
Anzac Day, 25 April is another day strongly associated with Australian nationhood, however it more particularly commemorates Australians who fought in wars and is named to honour the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who landed at Gallipoli, on that same day in 1915, during the First World War.
The Australian experience of defeat in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, which is viewed as the first iconic moment in modern Australian war involvement, is viewed by Australians with both pride for the fighting of the soldiers, and bitterness for the perceived negligence on the part of British commanders.
The incidences of valour, bravery, and determination displayed during the campaign for Gallipoli, as well as the mutual respect for their Turkish adversaries led by Kemal Atatürk, is seen as part of the ANZAC spirit.
For Forester, to understand Herbert Curzon's simple courage and determination to do his duty is to understand how men like Curzon, who were not by nature evil, were led to order the cream of their country's manhood to sacrifice themselves in the pointless bloody slaughter of the Somme or Verdun or Gallipoli.
It has been speculated, therefore, that the character Edgar Doe, who dies in Gallipoli ( the East ), is based on Reginald Corbet, while the character Archibald Pennybet, who dies on the Western Front, is based on George Corbet.
There is a bitter irony in this passage, for all three were such promising lives that were snuffed out the moment they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli by Turkish guns.
As the Germans break through Servia and British and French troops at Gallipoli begin to withdraw, it is Doe and Ray's unit that is required to attack as a diversion.
At the end of the novel when leaving Gallipoli Ray is charged by Padre Monty to tell England about what has happened, " You must write a book and tell ' em, Rupert, about the dead schoolboys of your generation ".

Gallipoli and site
Until 1999, the Gallipoli dawn service was held at the Ari Burnu war cemetery at Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of attendees resulted in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, Gallipoli, known as the " Anzac Commemorative Site ".
On Anzac Day, after the dawn service, Australian visitors congregate at the Lone Pine cemetery which now stands on the site for a memorial service to remember all their countrymen who fought and died at Gallipoli.
Such was the regularity of attacks on British patrols, that the Camden-Aungier streets area ( running from the military barracks at Portobello to Dublin Castle ) was nicknamed the " Dardanelles " ( site of the Gallipoli campaign ) by British soldiers.
* Visit Gallipoli: Australian site about Gallipoli and the Anzacs, includes previously unpublished photographs, artworks and documents from Government archives.
On August 6, 1915, it was the site for the Landing at Suvla Bay by the British IX Corps as part of the August Offensive during the Battle of Gallipoli.
It was the site of V Beach, the landing zone for two Irish battalions, including one from the SS River Clyde, on 25 April 1915 during the Battle of Gallipoli.
When he returned to Gallipoli, Ashmead-Bartlett established himself on the island of Imbros which was also the site of Hamilton's headquarters.
Gallipoli is a peninsula in northwestern Turkey, the site of the Gallipoli Campaign ( sometimes called the Battle of Gallipoli ) in World War I.
The European OE usually includes travel within Europe and, recently, a pilgrimage to the Gallipoli battle site.

Gallipoli and Thracian
When the Macedonian army approaches Thracian Chersonese ( the Gallipoli Peninsula ), an Athenian general named Diopeithes ravages this district of Thrace, thus inciting Philip's rage for operating too near one of his towns in the Chersonese.
* Pericles leads Athenian forces in the expulsion of barbarians from the Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region.
Sestos () was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey.
* Thracian Chersonese or Chersonesus Thracica, ancient name for the Gallipoli Peninsula
Lysimachia () was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese ( the modern Gallipoli peninsula ) in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas ( the modern Gulf of Saros ).
The Thracian Chersonese (, Thrakike Khersonesos ) was the ancient name of the Gallipoli peninsula, in the part of historic Thrace that is now part of modern Turkey.
The principal towns of the Thracian Chersonese were Cardia, Pactya, Callipolis ( Gallipoli ), Alopeconnesus, Sestos, Madytos, and Elaeus.
Agora ( in Greek Aγoρα ) was an ancient town situated about the middle of the narrow neck of the Thracian Chersonese ( called today Gallipoli peninsula ), and not far from Cardia, in what is now European Turkey.
Cardia ( in Greek Kαρδία ), anciently the chief town of the Thracian Chersonese ( today Gallipoli peninsula ), was situated at the head of the gulf of Melas ( today Saros bay ).

Gallipoli and ",
The earliest known sound recording of Advance Australia Fair appears in " The Landing of the Australian Troops in Egypt ", circa 1916, a short commercial recording dramatising arrival of the Australian troops in Egypt en route to Gallipoli.
" Cliffs of Gallipoli ", a song by Sabaton ( band ), was inspired by the battle.
An Irish folk song, " Gallipoli ", written by the Fureys was also sung and recorded by many others.
Notable Australian exponents of the folk revival movement included both European immigrants such as Eric Bogle, noted for his sad lament to the battle of Gallipoli " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda ", and indigenous Australians like Archie Roach and Paul Kelly.
At Gallipoli, the boys spend months waiting in a camp for any action, but are finally sent to the Helles, where they are up against " Asiatic Annie ", a 7-mile ranging Turk gun, and a well-placed Turkish gun that kills many of their friends.
In the 20 to 1 episode " Great Aussie Films ", Gallipoli was listed as Number 1.
The " Lone Pine ", a prominent landmark tree at an ANZAC First World War battle at Gallipoli, was this species.
At the memorial concert held at the Wigmore Hall, London, on 2 May 1919, some of his piano compositions were played by Leonard Borwick, and some of his songs were sung by Muriel Foster ; but his " Elegy for String Orchestra ", written at Gallipoli in memory of Rupert Brooke, a work of profound feeling, stood out from his other compositions, and made a deep impression.
The 18-pounder continued to be used as a general-purpose light gun in other theatres, such as on Gallipoli where it was manhandled up onto the tops of steep hills such as the " 400 Plateau ", " Bolton's Hill " and " Russell's Top " because of the lack of a modern mountain gun and shortage of field howitzers.
* First World War: " Mons ", " Ypres 1914 ,' 15 ,' 17 ,' 18 ", " Loos ", " Somme 1916 ,' 18 ", " Arras 1917 ,' 18 ", " Hindenburg Line ", " Gallipoli 1915-16 ", " Palestine 1917-18 ", " Mesopotamia 1916-18 ", " Archangel 1919 ".

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