Balaclava is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. It is situated in the south-east of the city in the St Kilda East area. It was named after the battlefield in the Crimean War, known as the Battle of Balaclava. A number of streets in Balaclava are named after famous persons and places in that war, such as Nightingale, Inkerman, Raglan and Sebastopol. The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central... St. ... The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 to 1856. ... Categories: Stub | Battles of the Crimean War ... A young Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was the pioneer of modern nursing. ... The Battle of Inkermann, a battle of the Crimean War, was fought on November 5, 1854 and resulted in a British and French victory under General Bosquet against the Russian forces under General Menshikov. ... Field Marshal Lord Raglan during the Crimean War, portrait by Roger Fenton, ca. ... Sevastopol (Севастополь, Sevastopol’ in Russian and Ukrainian; Aqyar in Crimean Tatar), formerly known as Sebastopol, is a port city in Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of Crimean peninsula. ...

The well known television celebrity, Graham Kennedy spent part of his childhood in the Balaclava area. Graham Kennedy Graham Cyril Kennedy (15 February 1934-25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer. ...

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Monash University - Australian Places (http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/balaclava.html)