Redoubt of the Dardanelles Fortified Area

The Dardanelles Fortified Area Command or Mediterranean Strait Fortified Area Command or Çanakkale Fortified Area Command ( Turkish: ''Bahr-i Sefîd Boğazı Mevki(i) Müstahkem Komutanlığı'' or ''Akdeniz Boğazı Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı'' or ''Çanakkale Boğazı Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı'' or ''Çanakkale Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı'') was the Ottoman fortified area command and was formed to defend against attacks on the

Dardanelles The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...

from the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...

Formations

Order of Battle, 1911

With reorganizations of the

Ottoman Army The military of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. Army The military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the ...

, to include the creation of

corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...

level headquarters, by 1911 the fortified area command was headquartered in

Çanakkale Çanakkale (pronounced ), ancient ''Dardanellia'' (), is a city and seaport in Turkey in Çanakkale province on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the city is 195,439 (2021 estimate). Çanakkale is ...

, under the command of II Corps. The Dardanelles Fortified Area Command in 1911 was structured as such: Dardanelles Fortified Area Command, Çanakkale *3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment *4th Heavy Artillery Regiment *5th Heavy Artillery Regiment *Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment *Torpedo Detachment *Mine Detachment *Wireless Detachment

Order of Battle, December 1912

In December 1912, the area command was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Defeat in Detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913'', Westport, Praeger, 2003, pp. 153-158. Dardanelles Fortified Area Command (Çanakkale, Commander:

Mirliva ''Mirliva'' or ''Mîr-i livâ'' was a military rank of the Ottoman Army and Navy. It corresponds to a brigadier general (modern Turkish: ''Tuğgeneral'') in the modern Turkish Army. ''Mirliva'' is a compound word composed of ''Mir'' ( commander) ...

Fahri Pasha) *3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment *4th Heavy Artillery Regiment *5th Heavy Artillery Regiment *Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment *Torpedo Detachment *Underwater Mine Detachment * 27th Infantry Division ( Eceabat) *Provisional Infantry Division ( Bolayır) *Afyon Redif Division ( Eceabat) *Çanakkale Redif Division (

Cape Helles Cape Helles is the rocky headland at the southwesternmost tip of the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey. It was the scene of heavy fighting between Ottoman Turkish and British troops during the landing at Cape Helles at the beginning of the Gallipoli c ...

) *Erdemit Redif Division ( Suvla Bey) *Kavak Detachment ( Kavak) *Menderes Detachment (

Kum Kale Kum may refer to: * Kum, a Slavic form of a godfather or a groomsman, similar to a blood brother * Kum., an abbreviation of the Indian honorific ''Kumari'', used for unmarried women * Kum (mountain), a mountain in Slovenia * Kum, Cantonese form of ...

)

Order of Battle, 1915

The Dardanelles Fortified Area was first-class fortified area, the commander of this fortified area was given the

' authority. It was headquartered in Çanakkale. The formation of the fortified area in 1915 was as follows:Askeri Tarih ve Stratejik Etüt Başkanlığı, ''Birinci Dünya Harbi'nde Türk Harbi: Cilt. 1. Kitap. Çanakkale Cephesi Harekâtı (Haziran 1914-25 Nisan 1915)'', T.C. Genelkurmay Basımevi, 1993, Dardanelles Fortified Area Command, Çanakkale *2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade (''İkinci Ağır Topçu Tugayı''), Çimenlik Tabyası **3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment **4th Heavy Artillery Regiment **5th Heavy Artillery Regiment *Fortress Engineer Company *Engineer Construction Company *Communication Company *Mine Detachment *Searchlight Detachment (8 searchlight) *Fortified Area Ammunition Depot Detachment *Bolayır Ammunition Depot Detachment *Sea Transportation (3 motorboat with 3 small boat)

Sources

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