The region of Canakkale, which rides the Dardanelles stream in
northwest Turkey, is a region rich in legend and dream. According to one
of these dreams, the stream associating the Aegean and Marmara seas was
made by the sea god Poseidon, who split the land isolated, allowing the
waters to hustle through.
The city of Canakkale on the south
bank was called Dardanos or Dardania by the Hellens after its amazing
creator Dardanos, the offspring of Zeus and Electra, and his grandson
Ilos set up the famous city of Troy 30 kilometers southward.
The
Canakkale Strait, as today is known, rivals the Bosphorus Strait with
respect to critical events ever, which it has seen. For example, the
Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great crossed the stream on his course
eastwards in 334 BC. In 1353 AD, Sultan Orhan Gazi crossed the alternate
path all through developing the energetic Ottoman Empire.
In
Ottoman events Canakkale was known as Kale-I Sultaniye or Sultaniye
Castle, after the valide (ruler mother). He set up the city according to
the well known seventeenth century Ottoman creator Evliya Celebi. The
château was worked during the standard of Sultan Mehmed II, who
vanquished Istanbul during the fifteenth century. Evliya Celebi
furthermore unveils to us that the twin château on the north side of the
stream was worked during the reign of Mehmed IV in the second half of
the seventeenth century and called Kale-I Hakaniye or Imperial Castle.
Evliya Celebi portrays Canakkale as having such fine air and water that
its inhabitants were much of the time of fantastic brilliance, and the
men 'as imposing as Algerian mariners'. He says that the city had
various ranches and develops and was praised for its grapes, grape
juice, wine, pickles grapes, grape molasses, and meatballs. We should
add that Canakkale is moreover prominent for its breeze, which attracts
immense amounts of windsurfers to the Aegean shoreline of the district
all through the pre-summer months.
Canakkale is
indistinguishably associated with two wars. The initially was the
unfathomable Trojan War, which happened around 1200 BC, and the second
the Gallipoli Campaign, which happened here 3115 years sometime later.
The Battle of Conkbayiri and Colonel Mustafa Kemal, as Ataturk was by
then, hit home with respect to the last referenced. The folksong, which
begins, 'The Aynali Bazaar in Canakkale/Mother I am made a beeline for
the fight to come the enemy,' is a memory of those hopeless events.
The Canakkale Campaign Museum
in the château, the estate mosque, Canakkale Clock Tower, Yali Han, and
Fatih Mosque are the city's central sights. Traveling southwards out of
the city, make a point to stop at Intepe. Beginning here, there is an
explosive see over the stream, the Aegean, and the Gallipoli Peninsula
on the opposite shore. Here history and nature are weaved, the fantastic
Canakkale War Memorial climbing from the Cape of Hisarlik at the
southern uttermost purpose of the projection. In pre-winter, the vista
is exceptionally brilliant, when the purplish blue waters of the stream
are laid out by the problematic lavish shores of green pines and the
impacting reds and yellows of the deciduous trees.
Continuing
past Troy, you go to a sign showing the way to the island of Bozcaada
and the out of date city of Alexandreia Troas, which was set up in 310
BC. Taking this road through pine woods and past towns convey you to
Geyikli, where vehicle ships make standard trips to the island, an
outing of 25 minutes.
The ordinary Ayazma Festival
in celebration of the grape gather occurs here reliably some place in
the scope of 26 and 29 July. From the north shore of Bozcaada can be
seen Turkey's greatest island, Gokceada (Imroz), to which there is a
customary ferryboat organization from Canakkale. South of Alexandria
Troas, alluded to neighborhood people as Eski Istanbul Ici, is the
Smintheion Sanctuary, whose Temple of Apollo is one of the three most
superb asylums in Turkey.
Further south is Turkey's westernmost
point, near the town of Babakale at the mouth of the Gulf of Edremit. To
come the gulf, you should take the crucial road which crosses inland
and returns you to the coast at the outdated city of Assos, where the
little town of Behramkale lies on a shaky incline, at the most elevated
purpose of which are the stunning leftovers of the Temple of Athena.
From
this vantage point, the Aegean stretches southward and west, around the
east is the wide round section of Kadirga Bay, and northward, a rich
green valley. Exactly when you look straightforwardly down from the
safe-haven to the coastline, you can perceive the marbles of the
indented harbor sparkling greenish-blue under the water.
Kaz
Dagi, the old Mount Ida, which rises northward of Edremit, was where the
world's first greatness challenge happened by one of the various dreams
and legends related with the mountain. Inland among Assos and Canakkale
lie the towns of Ezine, Bayramic, and Ayvacik, where neighborhood women
from the once in the past nomad Yoruk factions of this district sell
kilims.
Various spots worth visiting in the region are the town
of Lapseki at the northwest mouth of the stream, Biga on the Marmara
Sea, Can with its coal mines and stoneware handling plant, Yenice just
east of Can set up by the Kizil Keceli gathering, and Bolayir, where the
entombment offices of Gazi Suleyman Pasa and the craftsman Namik Kemal
are orchestrated.
On the north shore of the stream are Eceabat,
site of Kilitbahir Castle, and Gelibolu, celebrated for its sardines and
brilliant scene.
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