page_title: Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
hierarchical_section_title: Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
caption_attribution_description: Map of the Dardanelles defences in February and March, 1915. The original lines of naval mines are numbered 1 to 10. The 11th line, laid in Erin Keui Bay by the minelayer Nusrat on 8 March, is numbered 11. The anti-submarine nets are shown as dotted lines. Major forts are indicated with blue boxes and the Turkish name and equivalent British number for the fort is given, if known. Based on a maps from: A Short Military History of World War I - Atlas, edited by T. Dodson Stamps and Vincent J. Esposito, 1950 Gallipoli: A Battlefield Guide, Phil Taylor &amp; Pam Cupper, 1989 Gallipoli, Les Carlyon, 2001.
context_page_description: The Dardanelles Fortified Area Command or Mediterranean Strait Fortified Area Command or Çanakkale Fortified Area Command was the Ottoman fortified area command that was formed to defend against attacks on the Dardanelles from the Aegean Sea.
context_section_description: The Dardanelles Fortified Area Command or Mediterranean Strait Fortified Area Command or Çanakkale Fortified Area Command (Turkish: Bahr-i Sefîd Boğazı Mevki(i) Müstahkem Komutanlığı or Akdeniz Boğazı Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı or Çanakkale Boğazı Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı or Çanakkale Müstahkem Mevki(i) Komutanlığı) was the Ottoman fortified area command that was formed to defend against attacks on the Dardanelles from the Aegean Sea.
caption: The Dardanelles defenses in February/March 1915, showing minefields, anti-submarine nets and major gun batteries.
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