Hellespont
The Dardanelles, also known as the Strait of Gallipoli and in classical antiquity as the Hellespont, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Bahr Sefid Boghazi”, “Boghazlar”, “Çanakkale”, “Çanakkale Strait”, “Chanaq Qal”e Boghazi”, “Dardanelles”, “Dardanelles Strait”, “Ellēspontos”, and “Hellespontos”
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. Its population is 905. Karacaören is situated 5 km south of Hellespont.
Özbek
Village
Özbek is a village in the Çanakkale District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 264. Özbek is situated 5 km south of Hellespont.
Yalova
Village
Yalova is a village in the Eceabat District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 239. Yalova is situated 6 km northwest of Hellespont.
Hellespont
- Category: body of water
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Catalan: “Hel·lespont”
- Cebuano: “Dardanelles”
- Central Kurdish: “داردانێل”
- Chechen: “Дарданеллан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “恰纳卡莱海峡”
- Chinese: “赫勒斯滂”
- Chinese: “達達尼爾海峽”
- Corsican: “Strittonu di i Dardaneddi”
- Croatian: “Dardaneli”
- Czech: “Dardanelský průliv”
- Czech: “Dardanely”
- Czech: “Průliv 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”
- French: “Hellespont”
- Galician: “Dardanelos”
- Georgian: “დარდანელის სრუტე”
- German: “Dardanellen”
- German: “Hellespont”
- German: “Hellespontos”
- Greek: “Δαρδανέλλια”
- Greek: “Ελλήσποντος”
- Greek: “Στενά των Δαρδανελλίων”
- Hebrew: “דרדנלים”
- Hebrew: “מצר צ’נקאלה”
- 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”
- Italian: “stretto dei Dardanelli”
- Japanese: “ダーダネルス海峡”
- Japanese: “ヘレースポントス”
- Japanese: “ヘレースポントス海峡”
- Japanese: “ヘレスポント”
- Javanese: “Dardanelles”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಡ್ನೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಡ್ನೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Дарданелл бұғазы”
- Kirghiz: “Дарданелл”
- Korean: “다르다넬스 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Çanakkale”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Çanakkaleyê”
- Latin: “Hellespontus”
- Latvian: “Dardaneļi”
- 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”
- Romanian: “Dardanele”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Dardanele”
- Russia Buriat: “Дарданеллын хоолой”
- Russian: “Геллеспонт”
- Russian: “Дарданеллы”
- Rusyn: “Дарданелы”
- Scots: “Dardanelles”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Dàrdainealan”
- Serbian: “Дарданели”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dardaneli”
- Sicilian: “Strittu dî Dardanelli”
- Slovak: “Dardanely”
- Slovenian: “Dardanele”
- Slovenian: “Hellespont”
- Slovenian: “Hellespontos”
- Slovenian: “Preliv Çanakkale”
- Slovenian: “Preliv Galipoli”
- Somali: “Dardaniil”
- Spanish: “Dardanelos”
- Swahili: “Dardaneli”
- Swedish: “Dardanellerna”
- Tamil: “தார்தனெல்சு நீரிணை”
- Tamil: “ஹெல்லஸ்ப்பாண்ட்”
- Tatar: “Дарданеллар”
- Thai: “ดาร์ดะเนลส์”
- Tibetan: “ཏ་ཏ་ནེར་མཚོ་འགག”
- Turkish: “Çanakkale Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Дарданели”
- Ukrainian: “Дарданелли”
- Urdu: “آبنائے در دانیال”
- 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: “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”
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