Bodrum

Basement (from Petronium), formerly Halicarnassus, ancient Greek: (Turkish: Mausoleum), a Turkish port town in Muğla province is located in the southwestern Aegean Region countries. On the south coast of the Bodrum Peninsula, the entry control point is located in the Gulf of Gokova, and it faces the Greek island of Kos. Today, an international center of tourism and yachting. The city was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times. Mausolos shrine, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, were here.

Bodrum Castle, the Crusaders by 15 century, built in the port and looks at the International Marina. Museum of Underwater Archeology and hosts year-round fort area contains a variety of cultural festivals.

Bodrum has a Mediterranean climate. A winter average high of 14 °C (57 °F) and in the summer 32 °C (90 °F), with very sunny spells. Summers are hot and humid and winters are mild and mostly sunny.

Region of Bodrum, Turgutreis, Ortakent, Turkbuku, Yalikavak, Gumusluk, Bitez, Konacik, Waterside and in the municipality include Mumcu, and recent developments in tourism-focused areas throughout the district were built or being built. Even in the face of the peninsula is extremely dry belt that stretches compared with its immediate neighbors. With increasing population and more tourists a constant shortage of drinking water, later became a critical problem, the result of low rainfall.



The first recorded settlers in Bodrum region were the Carians and the harbor area was colonized by Dorian Greeks as of the 7th century BC. The city later fell under Persian rule. Under the Persians, it was the capital city of the satrapy of Caria, the region that had since long constituted its hinterland and of which it was the principal port. Its strategic location ensured that the city enjoyed considerable autonomy. Archaeological evidence from the period such as the recently discovered Salmakis (Kaplankalesi) Inscription, now in Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, attest to the particular pride[clarification needed] its inhabitants had developed.[3] A famous native was Herodotus, the Greek historian (484-420 BC).

Mausolus ruled Caria from here, nominally on behalf of the Persians and independent in practical terms for much of his reign between 377 to 353 BC. When he died in 353 BC, Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his sister and his widow, employed the ancient Greek architects Satyros and Pythis, and the four sculptors Bryaxis, Scopas, Leochares and Timotheus to build a monument, as well as a tomb, for him. The word "mausoleum" derives from the structure of this tomb. It was a temple-like structure decorated with reliefs and statuary on a massive base. It stood for 1700 years and was finally destroyed by earthquakes.[citation needed] Today only the foundations and a few pieces of sculpture remain.


Alexander the Great laid siege to the city after his arrival in Carian lands and, together with his ally, the queen Ada of Caria, captured it after heavy fighting.

Crusader Knights arrived in 1402 and used the remains of the Mauseoleum as a quarry to build the still impressively standing Bodrum Castle (Castle of Saint Peter), which is also particular in being one of the last examples of Crusader architecture in the East.

Bodrum sponge divers, fishermen and residents of a town 20 century middle of the up despite Mansur, free trade and the South Island with the access requirements associated with the bilingual Cretans Turks a large community exists as pointed Dodecanese Islands in 1935 until the absolute provincial saved her. [4] This replaced the traditional farming activities very rewarding in the peninsula of the big landlords did not prevent the formation of a class. Basement, or political and religious extremism has a remarkable history. intellectuals, a first core of the author Cevat Sakir Kabaağaçlı, here the first exiled came around 1950 after the form was launched twenty years ago and towns by the pen name of Harold Pinter ("Harold Pinter adoption to the point captivated happened").

In fact, once Bodrum Turkey's educated classes by popular among this group of intellectuals. Since then, Bodrum continuous artistic backgrounds of people to take their second homes as a place for the regions to select them for promotion is an effort, most of these people gradually throughout the year to stay would regularly have increased. Basement now many poets, singers, artists, as well as business-minded investors and will be hosting packages to tourists. the second with the interests of the inhabitants of Bodrum's heritage and spirit of defense of the differences between groups was determined susceptibility, and an ever-present issue that often surfaces. For example, trees are cut for any reason, a group of Bodrum in Turkey or even very likely to make national news is local.