Gallipoli (miniseries) April 1915 landing was recreated on the Mornington Peninsula. The series centres on 17-year-old Thomas "Tolly" Johnson (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who lies about his age so he may enlist with his brother Bevan (Harry Greenwood) and ends up fighting at Gallipoli in the campaign that helped create the Anzac legend. The story depicts the ten-month campaign in Turkey, highlighting the landing on 25 April 1915 by ANZAC troops who go into battle on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Landing in the dark, Tolly, Bevan, and their fellow soldiers of the 4th Battalion endeavor to establish a defensible foothold beneath the treacherous slopes of
Fall of Gallipoli the emperor John VI Kantakouzenos plundered most of Byzantine Thrace and, around 1352, were granted the small fortress of Tzympe near Gallipoli. On 2 March 1354, the area was struck by an earthquake that destroyed hundreds of villages and towns in the area. Nearly every building in Gallipoli was destroyed, causing the Greek inhabitants to evacuate the city. Within a month, Süleyman Pasha seized the site, quickly fortifying it and populating it with Turkish families brought over from Anatolia. John VI offered cash payments to the Ottoman sultan Orhan to vacate the city, but was refused. The sultan reportedly said