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 ( ; ; ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in classical antiquity as the Hellespont ( ; ), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey th ...

from the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...

Formations

Order of battle, 1911

With reorganizations of the

Ottoman Army The Military of the Ottoman Empire () was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in 1299 and dissolved in 1922. Army The Military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the years ...

, 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 formally introduced March 1, 1800, when Napoleon ordered Gener ...

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

Çanakkale Çanakkale is a city and seaport in Turkey on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. It is the seat of Çanakkale Province and Çanakkale District.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 brigadier general ( modern Turkish: ''Tuğgeneral'') and division general ( modern Turkish: ''Tümgeneral'') in the modern Turkish Army. ''M ...

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 Eceabat is a small town in Çanakkale Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey, located on the eastern shore of the Gelibolu Peninsula, on the Dardanelles Strait. It is the seat of Eceabat District.Bolayır Bolayır is a village in the Gelibolu District of Çanakkale Province, situated on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Its population is 1,053 (2021). Between 1958 and the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, 2013 reor ...

) *Afyon Redif Division (

Eceabat Eceabat is a small town in Çanakkale Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey, located on the eastern shore of the Gelibolu Peninsula, on the Dardanelles Strait. It is the seat of Eceabat District.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 Gallipo ...

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

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)

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)

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