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Top 9 sights in Bodrum

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   Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

   The tomb built for Mausolus between 353 and 351 BC, one of the seven wonders and the reason we use the word mausoleum at all. Earthquakes brought it down by the fifteenth century and the Knights carted the stone into their castle. The platform and a few blocks are what is left.

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   Halicarnassus

   The ancient Carian city beneath modern Bodrum, birthplace of Herodotus and seat of the satrap Mausolus, whose tomb of 353-350 BC was counted among the seven wonders of the world. Earthquakes brought the Mausoleum down, and the Knights of St John carried its stone into their castle.

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   Bodrum Castle

   The Knights of St John began it in 1402 and quarried the ruined Mausoleum for their stone. Each language of the order built its own tower. It now holds the Museum of Underwater Archaeology, whose Uluburun wreck of about 1300 BC is the oldest seagoing ship ever excavated.

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   Myndus

   An ancient Dorian colony on the Carian coast of the Bodrum peninsula, a few miles northwest of Halicarnassus. The village of Gümüşlük now stands on the site.

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   Neratzia

   The Castle of the Knights at the mouth of Kos harbour, built by the Knights of St John from the 14th century and given its double ring of walls in the 1490s. Much of its stone was quarried from the ancient city and the Asklepieion, and carved blocks still show in the ramparts.

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   Gazi Hassan Pasha Mosque

   An Ottoman mosque on Kos in the South Aegean in Greece. It was completed about 1777 or 1786, stands beside the tree traditionally called the plane of Hippocrates, and is no longer used for worship.

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   Ancient Theatre of Halicarnassus

   A Greek theatre of the fourth century BC at Bodrum in Turkey, altered under the Romans. It is thought to have been built on the same method as the theatre at Epidaurus.

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   Pedasa

   An ancient city of Caria. It was a polis by about 400 BC and lost its independence when Alexander the Great assigned it, with five neighbouring towns, to Halicarnassus; it had been a member of the Delian League.

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   Ancient agora of Kos

   The market place of the ancient city, laid bare after the earthquake of 1933 brought down the quarter above it. Columns of the stoa, the foundations of a temple of Aphrodite and stretches of Hellenistic street now lie open between the harbour and the old town.

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