Bodrum Castle (Turkish: Bodrum Kalesi) is a historical fortification located in southwest Turkey in the port city of Bodrum, built from 1402 onwards, by the Knights of St John (Knights Hospitaller) as the Castle of St. Peter or Petronium. A transnational effort, it has four towers known as the English, French, German, and Italian towers, bearing the names of the nations responsible for their construction. The chapel was built around 1407 and the first walls completed in 1437. The castle started reconstruction in the late 14th century, only to be taken over by the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1523. The chapel was converted to a mosque, and a minaret was added. The castle remained under the empire for almost 400 years. After remaining empty following World War I, in the early 1960s, the castle became the home for the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. In 2016 it was inscribed in the UNESCO Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey.[1]
^"The Bodrum Castle". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. UNESCO. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
BodrumCastle (Turkish: Bodrum Kalesi) is a historical fortification located in southwest Turkey in the port city of Bodrum, built from 1402 onwards,...
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Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid...
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Achaemenid sphinx from Halicarnassus, capital of Caria, 355 BC. Found in BodrumCastle, but possibly from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Head from a female...
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Bodrum. Organised by Turkish State Opera and Ballet since 2002, the festival takes place during summer, usually around July and August. BodrumCastle...
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the Dardanelles. During Ottoman times there was a castle on each side of the strait. These castles together were called the Dardanelles, probably named...
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called Andanus. After Bargylia is Caryanda or Caryinda, and then on the Bodrum Peninsula Myndus (Mentecha or Muntecha), 56 miles (90 km) from Miletus....
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arriving at Rhodes, Cem asked the protection of the French captain of BodrumCastle, Pierre d'Aubusson, grand master of the Knights of St. John, the Latin...
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population massacred. The Knights subsequently begin building BodrumCastle in Bodrum, to defend against future attacks. Conquest of the Canary Islands:...
the Bronze Age, on display in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology at BodrumCastle, Turkey. The museum archaeologists have devised a rack and roping device...
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