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Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. The name derives from the Greek "Kallipolis" ("Καλλίπολις"), meaning "Beautiful City". History: Antiquity, Byzantium and crusaders: Kallipolis, or in Latin Callipolis, was a city in the eastern part of the Thracian Chersonese ("Chersonesus Thracica" in Latin, now known as the Gallipoli Peninsula), on the right shore, and at the entrance of the Dardanelles. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian II fortified the city and established there important military warehouses for grain and wine. In 1304, Kallipolis briefly came under the control of the renegade Catalan group of mercenaries known as the Catalan Company, who, at that time, had just previously revolted against their Byzantine clients. In 1307, the Catalan Company, fearing retaliation by Byzantine forces, razed the city to the ground, and retreated to the relative safety of the area ... Read more about Gallipoli on Wikipedia

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