Bolayır is a town in the Gelibolu district of Çanakkale Province, situated on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the European part of Turkey.

Bolayır
Bolayır Location of Bolayır within Turkey.
Coordinates:
Country	Turkey
Region	Marmara Region
Province	Çanakkale
District	Gelibolu
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code(s)	286
Licence plate	17

The settlement was formerly a village. It received in 1958 the status of a town. According to the 2007 census, Bolayır's population is 1871.[1]

The türbe (tomb) of Süleyman Pasha (1316–1357), son of Orhan I, the second Bey of the Ottoman Empire and the grave of the Turkish nationalist poet Namık Kemal (1840–1888) are located in Bolayır.[2][3] On 26 January 1913, Bolayır was the site of the Battle of Bulair, a major Bulgarian victory over the Ottomans during the First Balkan War.

Bolayır was also the site of the Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) during the World War I.[1]

The traditional Greek name of Bolayır is Πλαγιάρι (Plagiari) and in Bulgarian the town is known as Булаир (Bulair). It may the same settlement known as Branchialion in medieval times or, if not, very close to it. A village in Dolni Chiflik Municipality, Varna Province bears the name Bulair in honour of the Bulgarian victory at Bolayır and a Bulgarian military march, the Bulair March, was written to commemorate the battle.

The ruins of the Ancient Greek city of Lysimachia lie nearby.

References

4. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125338/http://bolayirsaros.blogspot.com/

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