Gallipoli
- Ancient name
- Kallipolis
- Modern name
- Gallipoli
- Modern country
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 40.41, 26.68
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364285
The Gallipoli peninsula extends into the Aegean Sea along the northwest side of the Dardanelles. The city of Gallipoli is a port on the southern side of the peninsula where the Dardanelles meets the Sea of Marmara. After a devastating earthquake in 1354, it became the first Ottoman conquest on the Balkan (European) side of the strait—and therefore the base from which the Ottoman Turks would later expand across the Balkans. We have generally assumed from their position that Gallipoli toponyms in the Sfera map corpus refer to the city rather than the entire peninsula. Campbell #1054.
The toponym Gallipoli appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P068
Variant spellings of Gallipoli in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| chalipoli | Pal6 |
| Galapoli | Vat3 |
| GALEPOLI | Wie1 |
| galipoli | Barb3, Barb4, Borg, Con4, Fn3, Med2, NB, NYPL3, New, Pnc3, Ricc11, Ricc8, Ricc9, Urb1 |
| Galipoli | BL01, BL02, Clas2, Cors2, Cs1, Fo, He3, Laur3, Luc2, Magl2, Marc2, Med1, Med3, Morg, NYPL2, Par2, Parm2, Ricc14, Ricc17, Ricc6, Ro2 |
| GALIPOLI | Con1, Per2 |
| galipoli di grecia | Fn6 |
| Galipolj di Grecia | Pal5 |
| Galipolli | Ashb7 |
| Galpoli | Cap1 |
| Garipoli | Par4 |
| garipoli | He1, Spe, Tre |
| ghalipoli | Bal, Chig2, Fn12, Fn8, He2, Laur5, ME2, Pal8, Par1, Pnc5, Ricc12, Ricc13, Ricc15, Yale4 |
| GHALIPOLI | Fn8 |
| Ghalipoli | Marc1 |
| ghallipoli | Pad1 |
| tendo | Fn9 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Gallipoli.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/gallipoli/.