Çanakkale: The long time of the straits
The layers around Troy, Alexandria Troas, Assos and Gallipoli show Çanakkale not only as a battlefield or an ancient site, but as a geography of passage.
14 narratives and 27 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.
Four gateways into this world
- Cities and layers — Traces of settlement, belief and public life layered in the same place.
- Events and transformations — The marks left on geography by war, migration, trade, disaster and political change.
- People and ideas — Networks of knowledge, art and thought extending from Aegean cities into the Mediterranean.
- Roads and basins — Lines of movement linking harbour to inland, mountain to plain and sanctuary to city.
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Story and event network
- The Port of Alexandria Troas and Saint Paul's Passage to Macedonia
- Hiding of Aristotle's and Theophrastus's Manuscripts in Skepsis Underground Vault (200 BCE)
- From Bolayır Tomb to Bozcaada Castle and Gökçeada Dereköy: Conqueror of Rumelia Gazi Süleyman Pasha, Tenedos Moated Walls, and 1,950 Stone Houses
- Alexander the Great's Victory at the Granicus River (334 BCE)
- Gazi Süleyman Pasha's Crossing of Dardanelles to Rumelia and Conquest of Bolayır (1354)
- From Granicus Battlefield to Lampsakos Philosophy and Agonya Forests: Alexander's Victory, Anaxagoras' Exile, and Mount Ida Timber Houses
- From the Hellespont Strait to the Fortresses and Ewers of Çanakkale: Sestos, Kilitbahir, and Pottery Craft
- From Parion Odeon to Priapos Wine Harbor and Kemer Aqueducts: Colony City, Vineyard Port, and Roman Aqueducts
- Persian King Xerxes' Dardanelles (Hellespont) Pontoon Bridge Crossing (480 BCE)
- Construction of the Roman Parion Odeon and 15-km Aqueduct (150 CE)
- From Smintheion Apollo to Hadımoğlu Mansion and Skepsis Manuscripts: Iliad Friezes, 1795 Carved Ceiling, and Aristotle's Vault
- Stone above, water below: Aristotle's brief stay at Assos
- From Tenedos to Bozcaada: visible shore, hidden fleet, present crossing
- Harbors of Troas and Forests of Mount Ida: North Aegean Networks from the Dardanelles to Kapıdağ
Connected cultural inventory
- Akvaryum Bay
- Ancient City and Roman Harbour of Alexandria Troas
- Ancient City of Assos and Behramkale
- Assos: coastal acropolis
- The acropolis, harbour and Behramkale coast of Assos
- Ayazma Beach
- Aydıncık (Kefalos) Beach
- Ayvacık Gülpınar Smintheion Temple of Apollo Smintheus
- Bayramiç Hadımoğlu Mansion and Ethnography Museum
- Bayramiç Kurşunlu Ancient City of Skepsis and Aristotle Vault
- Biga Granicus River Historic Battlefield and Victory Plain
- Bozcaada Tenedos Castle and Vasilaki Vineyards
- Gelibolu Bolayır 1354 Tomb of Gazi Süleyman Pasha
- Gelibolu Fortress, Çimpe Castle, and Gallipoli
- Gizli Liman
- Gökçeada Imbros Dereköy (Schinoudi) and Historic Laundry
- Kadırga Bay
- Kale-i Sultaniye (Sultaniye Castle), Ancient Abydos, and Çanakkale Ceramics
- Kilitbahir Fortress, Ancient Sestos, and Eceabat
- Lapseki Ancient City of Lampsakos and Anaxagoras School of Philosophy
- Ancient City of Parion and Roman Odeon
- Parion Kemer Ancient Aqueducts
- Priapos (Karabiga) Coastal Fortress and Wine Dock
- Sivrice Bay
- Sokakağzı Bay
- Troy: layers at Hisarlık
- Yenice Kazdağları Agonya Valley Linden Forests and Timber Architecture