Bodrum is a new town that has been established upon one of the antique cities of great known "Halicarnassus".
The artifacts in the Bodrum Museum prove to us that this city and its surroundings can boast a civilization of aprox. 5000 years. Even though the famous historian, Herodotus was established by the Argolis Tribe of Karians. Halicarnassos, after it lived under Karian, Lykian, Persian, Macedonian, Egyptian and Roman sovereignties, was captured by the "Rhodes Knights" in 189 BC. The city came under Ottoman domination when Suleyman the Magnificent in 1522 captured the city along with the islands of Rhodes.
Situated in the west of Mugla, within the Gokova and Gulluks Bays, Bodrum is one of the most prominent tourism and entertainment centers of the world with its natural, historical and cultural endowments and its highly attractive bohemian way of life. The major local arts include carpet and kilim manufacturing and the building of the special trilandil type of Bodrum through is an art within itself.
Bodrum or ancient Halicarnassus which is the hometown of Heredotus, known as the "Father of History", is a typical Aegean sea-side town with white-washed houses and narrow, winding streets lined with cafes, bars, pubs and Restaurants.
As developers paid increasingly steep prices for land, the hillsides and bays around the town became covered with holiday houses for vacationing residents of Istanbul and Ankara. The graceful wooden hulls of gullets sway in the Bodrum harbor, beckoning holiday makers to forsake the heat and noise of the town for the calm of the blue waters of the Aegean.
The Halicarnassus Fisherman wrote, " When the moon comes up, the universe turns into a fairytale." Bodrum's nocturnal setting is magical; nightlife is invigorating and often continues until dawn.
I think you will go the way you came, you were the same before. Always leave their mind in Bodrum and went away ... " Cevat Sakir Kabaağaçlı like Harold Pinter has written for Bodrum. No place in Turkey's holiday resorts do not have a different image as Bodrum. Everyone has a different Bodrum. If you would like to introduce to the world of Bodrum on Turkey and the Bodrum Let's start with Stewart: "In the past, houses were built on high cliffs for war and defense. These are not home, "towers". But with the longing for the sea, blue, unable to stop their imreniş because, with pine-scented Pattaya, TINGIR mıngır downhill sides of jitter, two sheep lined gravel crisp. Those who were in the back of the foot up over the shoulders of the sisters stared in surprise at sea. Some brave houses and boats were dipped into the sea and waves play on a bye, had ridiculed the black sisters, the wimp. Here caiques houses, an intimate relationship is mandarin. At sea, coming and going are tired of boats or houses, or mandarin become. "For those who do, Bodrum know a lie can come but Cevat Sakir's also the aynıyla vaki believe it, is. Bodrum, one of Turkey's most talked about holiday resorts in. Stewart introduced the basement and that the intellectuals of his infatuation in Bodrum, Bodrum and settled down in large part or all of the writers and artists out there who spend a large share of fame has to fall. Next of benign, Valerie Türkali'nin novels and many of our authors, there are stories set in Bodrum. A growing reputation, reputation increases, the growing crowd in Bodrum, you know, our poet, writer or artist that we found we'll definitely somewhere. But of course does not just fame. The big hearted sponge divers, in love with sea captains, fishermen, the white washed houses, the walls wrapped in purple flowering bougainvillea, in which if not around the sparkling bay and most of sunrise pull away the night his fame fame adds Bodrum. Bodrum is not only a place to rest. Entertainment is definitely added to holidays. Bodrum holidays days are divided into two. Day to swim in the blue bay, in the hot sunshine to leave your body, so to rest and get ready for the night. Days when the sun sets and the stars fill the sky will hear the call of a new life. It is impossible to close your ears to this call. Is the call of the basement at night. Of friendship, dreams and who can resist the call of love? Especially if a full moon decorates the sky .. Beach at the neck, around the villages and coves, the streets of white houses on the banks of the knee, the slope is ready for the night in the restaurant. Masters of fishing nets, fishing line caught fish to the hook has been laid on ice. Grouper, colored skaroslar, stuffed mussels, squid and octopus are! .. Raki table in the basement of the indispensable octopus salad is established. Does the octopus, but I do not know Do you cook from a master he is. According to his own heart in the basement to find a place to spend the evening.
There are fish bar, a pizzeria. Later chapters, there are locations, rock music, too. Bar Street, Republic Street, Ney Tevfik Caddesi, Azmakbaşı, in short, everywhere bars and pubs are full of. Your choice. Born in Bodrum, Bodrum's wealth is not just sea and sun, is not only fun nights. The story of mankind in Bodrum has a history going back 3,000 years. BC historian Herodotus of the city. In 1000 by the Dorians at the location of the castle today is was founded. Then it was an island. BC Halicarnassus period. IV. century lived. You made the capital of Caria in the Mausoleum 24 years of management and is considered one of the seven wonders of the world, but its foundations remain today began construction of the magnificent monument, the Mausoleum. After his death, and his wife, sister and the II. Artemisia has continued the construction of the mausoleum. He died before completion of the completed monument artists have their own facilities. Ionic style temple is surrounded by 36 columns, 24 digits on it with a pyramid top and riding a chariot made of 42-foot marble statue of Artemisia Mausolos and a great work appeared. Some sculptures and reliefs in the British Museum today. Been abducted, been taken with the permission of the sultan. Artemisia died İdrius instead, then head past the Princess Islands. Deposed by his younger brother in the island city judge, Alexander (Mo. 334) were removed again by the board. (We will visit the island in the Bodrum Castle.) Region after Alexander Lysimachos'un (Mo. 301), then entered Ptolemid sovereignty. BC. 189'da Rhodes, 167 connected to the Kingdom of Pergamum, MS. IV. During century Caria became the Episcopal Center. 1274'de Menteşe in this region during the Ottoman Empire was established and became part of the statutory Solomon. Under today's settlement with the remains of the old city for the whole thing more could be uncovered. Side of the road passing through the basement on the hill top and restore the theater, which were constructed during the Maussollos. A part of the city walls can be seen in Gumbet Myndos gate on the road. The symbol of the city of Saint John the last we see of the castle by the Knights were made with the consent of the Sultan Mehmet Celebi. The fortress began construction in 1402 additions were made over time. In the ruins of the castle was demolished by an earthquake Mausolleion'un were used as building blocks. According to the construction of the castle towers, French, Italian, German, Spanish and English are called Tower. Held today at the castle as a museum. Here is our first and only submarine museum in the country.
