Sedd el Bahr ( tr, Seddülbahir, ota, سد البحر, meaning "Walls of the Sea") is a village in the district of Eceabat,

Çanakkale Province Çanakkale Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the city of Çanakkale. Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European (Thrace) and an Asian (Anatolia) part. The E ...

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. It is located at

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 ...

on the Gallipoli peninsula in

. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of 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 (; ...

. It was the site of

V Beach The landing at Cape Helles ( tr, Seddülbahir Çıkarması) was part of the Gallipoli Campaign the amphibious landings on the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on 25 April 1915 during the First World War. Cape Helles, Helles, a ...

, the landing zone for two

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s, including one from the SS ''River Clyde'', on 25 April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign in

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. At the tip of the Sedd el Bahr promontory is the castle (''Sedd el Bahr Kale''), also known as Old Castle (''Eski Kale''), which was built in 1659. The British designated the castle "Fort No. 3" (at the other end of V Beach was "Fort No. 1", also known as Fort Ertuğrul) and it was equipped with ten

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pieces, including two 28 cm Krupp L/22 guns. The castle was bombarded by the

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on 3 November 1914, causing serious damage and killing 86 Ottoman soldiers. The British attacked the Ottoman forts on 19 February 1915 at the start of the naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign. Sedd el Bahr was subjected to repeated bombardment and raids by naval demolition teams and the position was deemed too exposed. By the peak of naval operations on 18 March, Sedd el Bahr and Kum Kale, across the straits, had been eliminated as threats. Sedd el Bahr is mentioned in the traditional Irish song " The Foggy Dew" in the line "It was better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at

Suvla View of Suvla from Battleship Hill Suvla () is a bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros. On 6 August 1915, it was the site for the Landing at Suvla Bay by the British IX Corps as pa ...

or Sud el Bar". This line references the 1916 Easter Rising, which took place in Ireland almost exactly a year after the

landing at Suvla Bay The landing at Suvla Bay was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipol ...

as part of the Gallipoli Campaign. As of 2011, the population of the village stood at 286.Statistical Institute

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* {{Authority control Fishing communities in Turkey Gallipoli campaign Villages in Eceabat District

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