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The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale was a campaign of the World War I that took place on the [|Gallipoli] peninsula in the [|Ottoman Empire] between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916. The peninsula forms the northern bank of the [|Dardanelles], a [|strait] that provides a sea route to what was then the [|Russian Empire] , one of the [|Allied powers] during the war. Intending to secure it, Russia's allies Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an [|amphibious landing] on the peninsula with the eventual aim of capturing the Ottoman capital of [|Constantinople] (modern-day [|Istanbul] ). The naval attack was repelled and, after eight months' fighting, with many casualties on both sides, the land campaign also failed and the invasion force was withdrawn to [|Egypt].