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Map showing the location of the Dardanelles (yellow), relative to the Bosporus (red), the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. View of the Dardanelles taken from the Landsat 7 satellite in September 2006. The body of water on the left is the Aegean Sea, while the one on the upper right is the Sea of Marmara.
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The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge on the Dardanelles strait, connecting Europe and Asia, is the longest suspension bridge in the world. [3]The Straits have had major maritime strategic importance since at least the Mycenaean period, and the narrow crossings between Asia and Europe have provided migration and invasion routes (for Persians, Galatians, and Turks, for example) for even longer.
Yell County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,263. [1] The county has two county seats, Dardanelle and Danville. [2] Yell County is Arkansas's 42nd county, formed on December 5, 1840, from portions of Scott and Pope counties.
The Dardanelles Roadless Area's highest features are Stevens (10,043 ft) [5] and Red Lake peaks (10,060 ft). [6] These peaks are the highest in northern California that are composed of mudflow breccia (conglomerate). Stevens Peak was named in 1889 for J. M. Stevens, a local county supervisor who operated a stage coach station in nearby Hope ...
Abydos (Ancient Greek: Ἄβυδος, Latin: Abydus) was an ancient city and bishopric in Mysia. [nb 1] It was located at the Nara Burnu promontory on the Asian coast of the Hellespont (the straits of Dardanelles), opposite the ancient city of Sestos, and near the city of Çanakkale in Turkey.
Highway 22 ran from Fort Smith to Dardanelle along a routing very similar to the modern-day routing of AR 22. [10] On July 14, 2015 the highway was linked to Future I-49 in Barling . [ 11 ] In June 2019 a proposal was made under the Connecting Arkansas Program-2 for US$25 million to be allocated to the improvement of sections of Highway 22 ...
1901 map of the Dardanelles The toponym today refers to a neighborhood of the Turkish city of Çanakkale ("Fort Chanak"). Originally just a fort, the city occupies some distance north and south of the narrowest part of the Dardanelles on the Anatolian side, the point on which the fort stood being at 40°08′43″N 26°23′43″E / 40. ...