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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 ...
On August 10, 1773, Admiral Elmanov bombarded Bodrum Castle at around 19:00 and landed 1,000 soldiers, then an additional 1,500 at around 04:00. [3] However, the plundering operation was defeated by the attack of the Turkish troops, and the Russian troops suffered losses. He quickly boarded ships and left Bodrum. [4]
The modern name Bodrum derives from the town's medieval name Petronium, which has its roots in the Hospitaller Castle of St. Peter. [citation needed]In classical antiquity, Bodrum was known as Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Ἁλικαρνασσός, [5] Turkish: Halikarnas), a major city in ancient Caria.
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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 ]
Bodrumkale is a castle ruin in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. It is situated on a hill, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from Osmaniye. The castle is to the northeast of the ancient city of Castabala. In medieval times it controlled the road from Central Anatolia to the Mediterranean coast.
Gümüşlük Gümüşlük. In the Aegean Region, it is situated on the remains of the ancient city of Myndos.The remains of the foundations of buildings can be clearly seen in the knee deep water that leads from the middle of the two bays to Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası).
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.