the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
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the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks
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Dardanelles \Dardanelles\ n. 1. the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.
Syn: Hellespont. [WordNet 1.5]
2. the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks.
Syn: Dardanelles campaign. [WordNet 1.5]
Sometimes a specific event could explain it: the botching of the Dardanelles campaign, for example, and the fearful slaughter that followed.
All hotels and boarding houses have been fully booked for months, said Muzaffer Ecemis, governor of Canakkale province, which includes the Dardanelles Strait and the peninsula north of it.
At the Dardanelles and on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula the Turks fought the Allied armies to a draw.