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bodrum,
Turkey
Today
Bodrum is considered the Saint Tropez of Turkey and is one of
its most attractive tourist resorts.
Once the ancient city Halicarnassus (the birthplace of
Herodotus), Bodrum was the site of the Mausoleum of King
Mausoleus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Two millennia later the Knights of St. John built a
magnificent Crusader Castle which today is the centerpiece of
the modern town. After the fall of the castle during the reign
of the Ottoman Turks Bodrum declined and a hundred years ago
was a small isolated village,
still important because it was the center of the sponge
diving industry along the Turkish coast.
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