Gallipoli
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The Gallipoli peninsula (Template:IPA-en; Template:Lang-tr; Template:Lang-gr) is located in Turkish Thrace (or East Thrace), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" (Kallipolis), meaning "Beautiful City". In antiquity, it was known as the Thracian Chersonese (Template:Lang-la, Template:Lang-el).
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Personages
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Notable people from Gallipoli
- Sofia Vembo (1910-1978), Greek singer and actress
- Salih Yazıcı, 14th c. scribe; writer of the masnavi Shemsiyye, a work of divinations in the Turkish language
- Ahmed Bican, writer
- Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu, writer of the Muhammediyye, one of the key wohirks of islamic Ottoman literature
- Mustafa Ali (*1541–1600), Ottoman historian, politician and writer
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