BODRUM

World famous Bodrum Peninsula; Its 3,500-year-old history, culture and art inherited from ancient civilizations, natural beauties, original architecture, agricultural riches, gastronomy, climate, sea and magnificent bays, entertainment life that lasts until the morning, qualified and different concept accommodation facilities that meet all the needs of visitors. It is one of the corners of paradise in Turkey.

 

Bodrum has fascinated humanity since the times before Christ; It contains traces of various cultures and civilizations, such as Leleg, Caria, Persian, Dor, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman, from ancient times to the present day.

 

Halicarnassus, called the "Paradise of Eternal Blues" by the famous Historian Homer, was founded on the lands that are the intersection point of Greek and Anatolian civilizations. Archaeological findings from various civilizations indicate that the region and its surroundings have a history of seven thousand years. Halicarnassus, one of the most important port cities of the Caria Region in ancient times, raised many important people such as Herodotus, known as the father of history, and Artemisia I, the first female admiral of history.

 

It is said that humankind's adventure in Bodrum has a history stretching back 3,000 years. Historian Herodotus from Bodrum (484 BC) writes that the city was founded by the Dorians in 1,000 BC, where the castle is located today. At that time, this place was an island.

 

The Carians came under the rule of the Lydians and then the Persians in the 6th century BC. Persians divided Anatolia into satrapies. The Caria Region was ruled by the Hekatomnos Dynasty. Mausolos brought the capital of the Satrapy of Caria from Mylasa to Halicarnassus and rebuilt the city. Halicarnassus experienced its brightest period in these years. During his 24-year rule, Mausolos started to build the tomb monument, called Mausoleion, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. After his death, his wife and sister, II. Artemisia continued the construction of the monument.

 

In 334 BC, Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, conquered the lands under Persian rule in Anatolia. The city could not recover after being burned and destroyed by Alexander. After Alexander's death, the region was ruled by his generals for a while, and then came under the rule of the Ptolemies and Rhodes, but Halicarnassus maintained its independence like other coastal cities. In 133 BC, when the Romans established the Asia Province in Anatolia as the heir of the Kingdom of Pergamum, Caria was included in this province. After the division of Rome into two (AD 324), it became a bishopric affiliated with the Metropolitanate of Aphrodisias.

 

City, XI. It was captured by the Turks in the last quarter of the century, in the 13th century. It was annexed to the lands of Menteşe Principality in the century. With the conquest of Rhodes by Suleiman the Magnificent, Bodrum joined the Ottoman Empire. It was occupied by the Italians at the end of World War I (May 11, 1919), and the Italian occupation ended in the War of Independence -05.07.1921.

 

BASEMENT NAME ST. INCOME FROM THE PETRIUM KNIGHTS

 

The name Bodrum comes from St. Petersburg, one of the founders of the Castle. It comes from the Knights of Petrium. This name, which was pronounced as BODRUM by the Turks living here at that time, was finalized as Bodrum with the establishment of the Republic.

 

Bodrum, with a population of approximately 5000 in the first years of the Republic, was known as a small port town that earned its living from fishing, sponge diving and agriculture before tourism. With the development of tourism since 1965, population growth and construction began to make Bodrum a rapidly developing tourism center. Today, Bodrum is a tourism center in the most special and beautiful geography of the world, attracting attention with its cultural and historical richness and increasing its appeal with these features.