The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey

Usage examples of dardanelles.

At first they swam obliquely upwards, rather towards Nagara Point than the Dardanelles, but notwithstanding their skill and efforts they made little progress.

I hope you may never repent of not taking me, for without me you will never pass the Dardanelles.

Such was the short dialogue I had with the worthy count, who, as a matter of fact, did not pass the Dardanelles.

But these ships need not stop at Syria, they can go by the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, by uninterrupted water communication, to the shores of Armenia itself.

Incidentally, Colonel Baylor in his report said that Rostov trapped Havelock in Athens, and although be could have gotten him out of Greece and Into Russia by way Of the Dardanelles, he chose not to.

Churchill, the British lord of the admiralty, tried to break the deadlock by launching an attack on Turkey from the Dardanelles, to open a new supply route to Russia.

When we came to the Macedonian coast in moonlight we sailed along it, and up the Dardanelles, looking out for village, yali, or any habitation where we might put up: but everything wrecked, Kilid- Bahr, Chanak-Kaleh, Gallipoli, Lapsaki in ruins.

German submarines in the First World War: Weddigen and the U9, submarine plays decisive role in Dardanelles campaign, sinking a total of thirteen million gross register tons.