ÇANAKKALE

A province in both Asia and Europe

Turkey has territory both in the continents of Asia and, to a lesser extend, in Europe. Only two of Turkey's provinces, namely Istanbul and Çanakkale, have territories that are both in Asia and Europe.
Çanakkale is separated by a strait, which is named after the city. The Çanakkale Straits (the Dardanelles) link the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the Marmara and Black Seas. The water of these two great seas flows in two separate currents, the lower flowing up the Strait and the surface one flowing down. The climate of Çanakkale is a mixture of that of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
The Dardanelles Strait is 65 kilometres (35 miles) long and its width varies between one to six kilometres (0.75-four miles). Its average depth is about 100 metres (328 feet.)

 

Çanakkale as a tourism centre

Çanakkale itself is a giant history museum where the location of the ancient city of Troy (Troai), which enlightened the history of humanity, and where the Trojan War and the Gallipoli Campaign took place. It is a stage for great drama, from the great east-west war (Troy) in ancient times to the more recent great east-west battles of Gallipoli. The city of Alexandria Troas, where excavation work is continuing and which was once considered as an alternative for the capital of the Roman
Empire, and many other ancient sites are just an element of a cultural tour that should not be missed.

Çanakkale is also a tourism and aquatic centre with its very productive clean seas; with Mount Ida (Kazdağları) where the God Zeus sat, watched and interfered in the Trojan War; where Hellenistic myths and Turkmen legends intertwine; and with Gökçeada (Imbros), the largest of Turkey's islands and the tourism attraction of the island of Bozcaada (Tenedos).
Nowadays, the provincial capital Çanakkale is a modern city where daily life is easy with its university, high quality hotels and restaurants providing special delicacies of Aegean cuisine.