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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 ...
A white-washed windmill in Bodrum. Bodrum (Turkish pronunciation:) is a town and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. [3] About 200 thousand people live in the district, [2] which covers 650 km 2 [4] and includes the town. It is a port town at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova.
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.
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was born in the southern province of Gia Định, the location of modern Saigon.He was of gentry parentage; his father was a native of Thừa Thiên–Huế, near Huế; but, during his service to the imperial government of Emperor Gia Long, he was posted south to serve under Lê Văn Duyệt, the governor of the south.
The leader of the Âu Việt, Thục Phán, overthrew the last Hùng kings, and unified the two kingdoms, establishing the Âu Lạc polity and proclaiming himself King An Dương (An Dương Vương). [18] [19] According to Taylor (1983): Our knowledge of the kingdom of Âu Lạc is a mixture of legend and history.
The Hanoi-Hai Phong railway passes through Hai Duong city about 13 km, starting from Viet Hoa ward and ending at Ai Quoc ward. Connecting with other provinces at Hai Duong Station - the railway hub of the whole province, and Tien Trung is the transit station of the Northeast region of the province.
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh was born in 924 in Hoa Lư (south of the Red River Delta, in what is today Ninh Bình Province).Growing up in a local village during the disintegration of the Chinese Tang dynasty that had dominated Vietnam for centuries, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh became a local military leader at a very young age.