Canakkale Tours
CANAKKALE
Canakkale is the site where the
Turkish army wrote the epic of
''Canakkale can not be passed'' and
was respected by all nations with
the famous naval battle on 18th
March 1915. Canakkale is full of
monuments built by Turks and
foreigners for the memory of all
soldiers who fought in Canakkale
during the 1st World War
TROJA (TRUVA)
Truva, 30 km south of Canakkale was
esteblished in 3000 B.C. and made a
reputation as center of heroism love
and civilization through history.
The Greek siegned the city for 10
years and they used a wooden horse
as a war trick to capture it reamins
of the city are destroyed. The first
excavations was in 1865 and German
archeologist Heinrich Schliemann
found 17 different treasures.
THE STORY OF THE TROJAN HORSE
Although the wars lasted for years
the Accadians could not capture the
city. They decided to make a huge
wooden horse and place soldiers
inside. They made on impression that
they had given up fighting and their
ships left. They left the wooden
horse as a present to. The Trojans
opened their gates and look the
horse inside the walls, and
organized a big celebration. They
drank, sang and made merry. After
day had become drank and tired the
soldiers inside the horse went out
and opened the gates. While this was
happeninng the ships come back in
the dark and captured the city very
easily.
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The surface area of Turkey is divided by the Dardanelles, the sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus. In the west, Turkey has boundaries with Greece (212km) and Bulgaria (269km). In the east and south east, Turkey has boundaries with four countries: The Soviet Union (610km) , Iran (454km), Iraq (331km), and Syria (870km). Geographically, Turkey is a land-bridge between Europe and Asia.
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