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Dardanelles

strait in northwestern Turkey
Place Strait Q6514
Dardanelles
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Facts

14 properties

Designation

Instance of
strait
Heritage designation
Important Bird Area[20]

Location

Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.200°, 26.400°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Çanakkale Province[2]
More facts +9
Part of
Sea of Marmara, Black Sea[7][8]
Described by source
Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, Meyer’s Universum, Sechzehnter Band[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Inflows
Karamenderes River[6]
Length
+61[24]
Named after
Helle, Dardanos[4][5]
Native label
Çanakkale Boğazı, Δαρδανέλλια, Ἑλλήσποντος[21][22][23]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
Said to be the same as
Hellespont[9]
Vertical depth
+82[25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Çanakkale Strait en Hellespontos en Hellespont en Dardanelles Strait en Dardanelles ar الدردنيل cs Helléspont cs Průliv Dardanely cs Dardanelský průliv cs Dardanely da Dardanellerne de Dardanellen de Hellespont de Hellespontos el Στενά των Δαρδανελλίων el Ελλήσποντος el Δαρδανέλλια es Dardanelos fa داردانل fi Dardanellit
🔖 Identifiers · 53
VIAF cluster ID
243410280
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh86004066
GND ID
4011051-5
BHCL UUID
6afb0a03-0b40-47b6-96f4-88c33baccd1e
Biblissima authority ID
Saterland
BirdLife International IBA ID
çanakkale-strait-iba-türkiye
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
dardanellen
Edition humboldt digital ID
H0005483
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Dardanelles
FAST ID
1713545
FactGrid item ID
Minot Point
Freebase ID
/m/027xm
Show all 53 identifiers +41
GeoNames ID
749779
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
dardanels
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0021474
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Dardanellene
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2348939, 1941183
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
13916
Interlingual Index ID
i84165
J9U entity ID
987007556164205171
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
4900
KBpedia ID
Dardanelles-Strait
Lex ID
Dardanellerne
MANTO ID
8254008
Museum-digital place ID
4002, 67813
NE.se ID
dardanellerna
NL CR AUT ID
ge619423
National Library of Greece ID
38540
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001193917
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000776293
National Library of Latvia ID
000138786
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3890673
OpenStreetMap relation ID
8926172
PM20 folder ID
sh/141111,146008, sh/141034,146008
Pleiades ID
501434
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
16874
SNARC ID
Vasily Smyslov
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1201694
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
canakkale-bogazi
Topic's main category
Category:Dardanelles
ToposText place ID
402264WHel
Treccani ID
dardanelli
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
ellesponto, dardanelli
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10044370
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
9563
Vatican Library VcBA ID
497/23831
Who's on First ID
404529197
WikiKids ID
Dardanellen
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09063846-n
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
14318736
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqfC89Hgg97mfbvjMXGHC
YSO ID
210912
Yale LUX ID
place/94ab3fee-76c9-4bdc-8c19-4dbb6e1d1b23
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Istanbul 2026-09-26 H/STRT · TR GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Located in this place 10
Battle of the Hellespont, Anglo-Turkish War, naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign, Battle of the Dardanelles, Dardanelles Operation, Battle of the Dardanelles, Battle of the Dardanelles, Battle of the Dardanelles +2 more
← Located in or next to body of water 6
Çanakkale, Çanakkale Province, Mediterranean Basin, Gelibolu, Lapseki, Eceabat
Described by source 5
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
People who died here 5
Craterus, Eupolis, Neoptolemus, Lazzaro Mocenigo, Lorenzo Marcello
Belongs to 2
Black Sea, Turkish straits
Named after 2
Helle, Dardanos
Part of 2
Black Sea, Sea of Marmara
← Crosses 2
1915 Çanakkale Bridge, Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges
← Located in/on physical feature 2
1915 Çanakkale Bridge, HMS Majestic
Country 1
Turkey
FactGrid item ID 1
Minot Point
Heritage designation 1
Important Bird Area
Inflows 1
Karamenderes River
Instance of 1
strait
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Çanakkale Province
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
People born here 1
Vasilis Georgiadis
SNARC ID 1
Vasily Smyslov
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dardanelles
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dardanelles
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Karamenderes River
← Narrative location 1
Anabasis
← SNARC ID 1
Quillabamba
← Terminus 1
E6 European long distance path
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Dardanelles is a strait.

Related Entities

Anabasis Çanakkale Craterus Eceabat Eupolis Turkey Vasily Smyslov

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Class ancestry

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  1. 12w ago · 沈澄心 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Latvia ID → 000138786
    National Library of Ireland ID → vtls001193917
    "Created claim: National Library of Latvia ID: 000138786, Added with moreIdentifiers"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 4900
    Biblissima authority ID → Saterland
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q27643, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  3. 24w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID → geografico/1201694
    "Created claim: Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID: geografico/1201694"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    Instance of → strait
    Vertical depth → 82 metre
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Çanakkale Province
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 210912, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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