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Bodrum Maritime Museum is another museum dedicated to the classification, exhibition, restoration, conservation, storage, and safekeeping of historical documents, works, and objects that are important to the city's maritime history. [31] Bodrum City Museum is a minor museum in the city center that presents the general history of the Bodrum ...
Bodrum Castle in 2020. In 1962 the Turkish Government decided to turn the castle into a museum for the underwater discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. This has become the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, [6] with a collection of amphoras, ancient glass, bronze, clay, and iron items. It is the biggest museum of its kind ...
Battle of Bodrum (1773), was a phase in the Russo-Turkish war (1768–1774). The Russian fleet under the command of Admiral Elmanov landed in Bodrum on 10 August 1773 and in Kos on 17 August, where the Russian troops were repelled by the Turkish garrisons with heavy losses.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus [a] (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
Herodotus, regarded as the "father of History", was born in Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) in c. 484 BC. [3] The volcanic mountains to the west of Antalya, near Dalyan, are believed to have been the inspiration for the mythical Chimera — the fire-breathing monster that Bellerophon slew. [1]
Theatre at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, with the Bodrum Castle seen in the background, 2015.. The Theatre at Halicarnassus, [1] also known as Bodrum Antique Theatre [2] [3] (Turkish: Bodrum Antik Tiyatrosu, usually shortened as Antik Tiyatro), is a 4th-century BC [4] Greco-Roman theatre located in Bodrum, Turkey. [1]
Yassi Ada is an island off the coast of Bodrum, Turkey. [1] This area of the Mediterranean Sea is prone to strong winds, making a safe journey around the island difficult. The island could be called a ships' graveyard, on account of the number of wrecked ships off its southeastern tip.
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