Sedd el Bahr
Sedd el Bahr is a village in the Eceabat District, Çanakkale Province, Turkey. It is located at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of the Dardanelles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 277 residents
- Description: village in Eceabat, Çanakkale, northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Sedd-i Bahir”, “Seddel-Bahr”, “Seddillbahir”, “Sedduelbahir”, “Seddul Bahr”, “Seddülbahir”, “Seddülbakir”, and “Settilbahir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helles Memorial and Lancashire Landing Cemetery.
Helles Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Harvey Barrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula overlooking the Dardanelles.
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: GaryBlakeley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lancashire Landing Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It contains the graves of some of the Allied troops killed during the Battle of Gallipoli.
Skew Bridge Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Jll, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skew Bridge Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of Allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli, including the youngest British soldier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alçıtepe and Kumkale.
Alçıtepe
Village
Photo: Hüseyin Öcal, CC BY 3.0.
Alçıtepe, also known by its former name, Krithia, is a small village in Turkey on a commanding high plateau, about 4 miles from Cape Helles, the tip of the Thracian Chersonesos, now Gallipoli Peninsula. Alçıtepe is situated 6 km northeast of Sedd el Bahr.
Kumkale
Village
Kumkale is a village in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,016. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Kumkale is situated 8 km southeast of Sedd el Bahr.
Sedd el Bahr
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Eceabat, Çanakkale Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.04467° or 40° 2′ 41″ northLongitude
26.18892° or 26° 11′ 20″ eastPopulation
277Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
8GG825VQ+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 10081393939OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
739909Wikidata ID
Q3893230
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sedd el Bahr” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد البحر”
- Arabic: “قرية سد البحر”
- Chechen: “СеддуьлбахӀир”
- Chinese: “塞迪爾巴希爾”
- Dutch: “Seddülbahir”
- Esperanto: “Sedd el Bahr”
- German: “Seddülbahir”
- Hebrew: “סיד אל-בחר”
- Malay: “Sedd el Bahr”
- Polish: “Sedd el Bahr”
- Polish: “Seddülbahir”
- Russian: “Седд-эль-Бар”
- Russian: “Седдюлбахыр”
- Russian: “Седдюльбахир”
- Serbian: “Седулбахир”
- Tatar: “Седдүлбахир”
- Turkish: “Seddülbahir, Eceabat”
- Turkish: “Seddülbahir”
- Urdu: “سد البحر”
- Vietnamese: “Seddülbahir, Eceabat”
- Vietnamese: “Seddülbahir”
- Western Panjabi: “سد البحر”
- “Seddülbahir”
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