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Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial

Seddülbahir, Turkey

The Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial (Çanakkale Şehitleri Anıtı) is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War. It is located within the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park on Hisarlık Hill in Morto Bay at the southern end of the Gallipoli peninsula in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. The memorial was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 500,000 lira banknotes of 1993–2005.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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