Cape Helles on google earth

[glaswegian]

Hello Freends

just want tae tell you those wha re interested in the cape helles front/gallipoli that google earth has finally revealed a high resolution view of the helles area,enjoy it

william tuna

[Peter H]

Thanks Tuna

The origin of the name.

http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/news/5087/

Another ancient Greek name is ‘Helles’, the cape at the tip of the peninsula where most of the British and French were based in 1915. It takes its name from an important Greek myth about two young siblings called Helle and Phrixus.

A wicked stepmother devises a plot to have the boy Phrixus sacrificed by his own father, but the children make their escape on a magical flying ram with a golden fleece. The ram carries them away, but the little girl Helle falls to her death into the sea below. The stretch of water where she landed was thus called the ‘Hellespont’ by the Greeks, or ‘Sea of Helle’ (ie, the Dardanelles); and the name ‘Cape Helles’ comes from the same story.

Gallipoli:

The name ‘Gallipoli’ (Turkish ‘Gelibolu’) comes from the ancient Greek ‘Kallipolis’, which means ‘beautiful city’ or ‘beautiful town’. There were ‘polises’ (Gr poleis) throughout the ancient world. Naples or ‘Neapolis’ (= ‘New City’) is a famous example, but many other settlements ended with the word ‘-polis’.

So when you use the word ‘Gallipoli’, you are speaking ancient Greek – after a fashion. You may not know it, but you are also evoking the idea of physical beauty (Kalli-). Originally it was Kallipolis itself that was meant to be beautiful, but because of the modern town’s size as the largest settlement, the name ‘Gallipoli’ came to identify (in English) the whole peninsula.

[Tosun Saral]

The Ottoman Turks crossed dardanelles on rafts under the command of Süleyman Shah, brother of Sultan Orhan in 1357.
Their departing port was Odun iskelesi near the ruins of Cyzicus. Their destination was fort of Cimpe/Cimni on the peninsula which is only 8 kms to the town of Gallipoli. They made 2 great rafts. On each raft there were 39 men. After they took the castle they prated Allah for their victory on a hill which is now called "Namaz Tepe" Praying Hill. The 2nd AC builded over that hill a monument indicating that day.

ATurkish historian Called Sheik Mahmut from Order of Ahi [*] wrote a verse about that action
"Keramet gösterip halka, suya seccade salmışsın
Yakasın Rumeli'nin dest-i takva ile almışsın" 757(1357)

English:
"You showed your miracle by laying a praying rug on water
You conquered the other part the Rumeli with the help of Allah"

source: My late Brother Osman Yavuz Saral "Kaybettiğimiz Rumeli" (The Rumeli That We Lost) p.21

PS: We call the Balkans : Rumeli (Roman lands)
[*]Ahi" is a Turkish brotherhood organization of all craftsmen