Hellespont
The Dardanelles, also known as the Strait of Gallipoli, is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Bahr Sefid Boghazi”, “Boghazlar”, “Çanakkale”, “Çanakkale Strait”, “Chanaq Qal”e Boghazi”, “Dardanelles”, “Dardanelles Strait”, “Dardanelský průliv”, “Ellēspontos”, “Helléspont”, “Hel·lespont”, “Hellespontos”, “Preliv Çanakkale”, “Preliv Galipoli”, “Průliv Dardanely”, “stretto dei Dardanelli”, “Δαρδανέλλια”, “Στενά των Δαρδανελλίων”, “Геллеспонт”, “מצר צ’נקאלה”, “داردانيل”, “ஹெல்லஸ்ப்பாண்ட்”, “헬레스폰트”, “ヘレースポントス”, “ヘレースポントス海峡”, “ヘレスポント”, “恰纳卡莱海峡”, and “赫勒斯滂”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sestos.
Sestos
Archaeological site
Sestos was an ancient city in Thrace. Sestos is situated 3½ km northwest of Hellespont.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karacaören and Özbek.
Karacaören
Village
Karacaören is a village in the Çanakkale District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Karacaören is situated 5 km south of Hellespont.
Özbek
Village
Özbek is a village in the Çanakkale District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Özbek is situated 5 km south of Hellespont.
Yalova
Village
Yalova is a village in the Eceabat District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Yalova is situated 6 km northwest of Hellespont.
Hellespont
- Category: body of water
- Location: Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
40.21407° or 40° 12′ 51″ north
Longitude
26.4584° or 26° 27′ 30″ east
Open location code
8GG86F75+J9
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hellespont” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dardanelle”
- Albanian: “Dardanelet”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἑλλήσποντος”
- Arabic: “الدردنيل”
- Aragonese: “Dardanelos”
- Armenian: “Դարդանելի նեղուց”
- Asturian: “Dardanelos”
- Azerbaijani: “Dardanel boğazı”
- Azerbaijani: “Dardanel”
- Bashkir: “Дарданелдар боғаҙы”
- Bashkir: “Дарданелл боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Dardaneloak”
- Belarusian: “Дарданэлы”
- Bengali: “দার্দানেলেস প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “দার্দানেলেস প্রণালী”
- Bosnian: “Dardaneli”
- Breton: “Dardanelloù”
- Bulgarian: “Дарданели”
- Catalan: “Dardanels”
- Cebuano: “Dardanelles”
- Central Kurdish: “داردانێل”
- Chechen: “Дарданеллан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “達達尼爾海峽”
- Corsican: “Strittonu di i Dardaneddi”
- Croatian: “Dardaneli”
- Czech: “Dardanely”
- Danish: “Dardanellerne”
- Dutch: “Dardanellen”
- Dutch: “Hellespont”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدردنيل”
- Esperanto: “Dardaneloj”
- Estonian: “Dardanellid”
- Finnish: “Dardanellit”
- French: “Dardanelles”
- French: “détroit des Dardanelles”
- French: “Détroit des Dardanelles”
- Galician: “Dardanelos”
- Georgian: “დარდანელის სრუტე”
- German: “Dardanellen”
- Greek: “Ελλήσποντος”
- Haitian: “Dadanèl”
- Hebrew: “דרדנלים”
- Hindi: “डार्डेनलीज जलसन्धि”
- Hindi: “दार्दानेल्ज़ जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Dardanellák”
- Icelandic: “Dardanellasund”
- Ido: “Stretajo Dardaneli”
- Indonesian: “Selat Dardanella”
- Indonesian: “Selat Dardanelles”
- Irish: “An Dardainéil”
- Italian: “Dardanelli”
- Italian: “Ellesponto”
- Japanese: “ダーダネルス海峡”
- Javanese: “Dardanelles”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಡ್ನೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಡ್ನೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Дарданелл бұғазы”
- Kirghiz: “Дарданелл”
- Korean: “다르다넬스 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Çanakkale”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Çanakkaleyê”
- Latin: “Hellespontus”
- Latvian: “Dardaneļi”
- Literary Chinese: “達達尼爾海峽”
- Lithuanian: “Dardanelai”
- Lombard: “Streit dei Dardanei”
- Lombard: “Stret di Dardanei”
- Luxembourgish: “Dardanellen”
- Macedonian: “Дарданели”
- Malay: “Dardanelles”
- Malayalam: “ഡാർഡനെൽസ്”
- Maori: “Tātinēra”
- Marathi: “डार्डेनेल्झ”
- Newari: “दार्दानेल्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Dardanellen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dardanellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dardanellane”
- Norwegian: “Dardanellene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dardanèls”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ellaspontus”
- Ossetian: “Дарданеллтæ”
- Persian: “داردانل”
- Polish: “Dardanele”
- Portuguese: “Dardanelos”
- Pushto: “داردانل تنګی”
- Pushto: “داردانل تنگی”
- Romanian: “Dardanele”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Dardanele”
- Russia Buriat: “Дарданеллын хоолой”
- Russian: “Дарданеллы”
- Rusyn: “Дарданелы”
- Scots: “Dardanelles”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Dàrdainealan”
- Serbian: “Дарданели”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dardaneli”
- Sicilian: “Strittu dî Dardanelli”
- Slovak: “Dardanely”
- Slovenian: “Dardanele”
- Somali: “Dardaniil”
- Spanish: “Dardanelos”
- Swahili: “Dardaneli”
- Swedish: “Dardanellerna”
- Tagalog: “Dardanelos”
- Tamil: “தார்தனெல்சு நீரிணை”
- Tatar: “Дарданеллар”
- Thai: “ดาร์ดะเนลส์”
- Tibetan: “ཏ་ཏ་ནེར་མཚོ་འགག”
- Turkish: “Çanakkale Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Дарданели”
- Ukrainian: “Дарданелли”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dardanele”
- Urdu: “در دانیال”
- Uzbek: “Dardanell boʻgʻozi”
- Vietnamese: “Dardanellia”
- Vietnamese: “Dardanéllia”
- Vlaams: “Dardanelln”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dardanelles”
- Welsh: “Dardanelles”
- Western Frisian: “Dardanellen”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے در دانیال”
- Western Panjabi: “درہ دانیال”
- Wu Chinese: “达达尼尔海峡”
- Wu Chinese: “鞑靼内亚海峡”
- Yiddish: “דארדאנעלן”
- Yue Chinese: “達達尼爾海峽”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Esenler and Musaköy.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Kayaüstü Burnu and Kabageven Burnu.
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