Gallipoli

a town of Southern. Tipis. built on a steep rock in the Gulf of Taranto, connected with the mainland by a bridge, and 59 miles S. of Brindisi. _The town is remarkable for its oil tanks, excavated in the solid rock, in which olive oil is deposited for, exportation.: Gallipoli, a seaport of Turkey, on the peninsula of the same name (the ancient Thracian Cher sones us), at the N. E. extremity of the Dardanelles, 90 miles S, of Adrianople, and 130 W. S. W. of Constantinople. It was formerly the most important commercial town on the Hellespont, and still retains considerable trade. It is headquarters for the Turkish fleet.