NOUN
- 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
- the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
How To Use Dardanelles In A Sentence
- Towards the end of the Dardanelles campaign, the E-class submarines still in the area were fitted with twelve pounder guns.
- Some 500,000 vessels a year pass through the treacherous, narrow Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
- The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. It is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass.
- To the south-east lay Cyprus and Egypt; to the north, the Dardanelles and the Black Sea; westwards the mainland of Greece and the island of Crete.
- Seas were smoother within the narrows of the Dardanelles and once the kayakers had rounded the Gallipoli peninsular, they were protected from the seasonal north easterly.
- The Turkish Straits connect the Black and Aegean Seas and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.
- Nevertheless, for the moment, Fisher had won: the superdreadnought sailed for Malta and home and all thought of another naval offensive at the Dardanelles was suspended. Castles of Steel
- However, he cabled a message to the Vice-Admiral inquiring his views of the possibility of rushing the Dardanelles.
- His outpost on the Dardanelles was within the Persian empire.
- Europe:The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. It is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass.
