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The Strait of the Dardanelles, named by the Turks Dardanelles, after the city of Çanakkale, is 61 km/38 miles long and stretches between the Marmara Sea and the Aegean Sea. Its width varies between 1,2 km/0.75 miles and 6 km/4 miles.
Both a gateway to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea and to the Aegean and Mediteranean Seas, throughout history, the Strait of the Dardanelles, which also controls the crossing between Europe and Asia, has always been a highly strategic area subjected to conquests.
The name Dardanelles derives from Dardanos, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra daughter of the Titan Atlas and Pleione, founder and king of the city of Dardania located in the foothills of Mount Ida on the Asian shore of the strait. From Dardanus' grandson Tros, the people gained the additional name of Trojans and the region gained the additional name Troad. Tros' son Ilus subsequently founded a further city called Ilion (or Ilium) more commonly called Troy and the kingdom was split between Ilium and Dardania.
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