Saturday, March 10, 2012

Hotels in Bodrum Turkey Vacation Spots Beaches

. Saturday, March 10, 2012

According to the famous traveler-historian-philosopher Herodotus*, ancient Halicarnassus was founded in an area called Caria by Dorians who mixed with the native populations called Lelegians and Carians. With Cnidus, Cos on the island of the same name, Camirus, Lalysus and Lindus on Rhodes Island, Halicarnassus belonged to the Dorian confederacy. In the middle of the 6C BC, Halicarnassus came under Persian domination but was ruled through native tyrants (the first one was Lygdamos) centered in Mylasa. His daughter, Queen Artemisia I, backed Xerxes during his expedition against Greece but they were defeated in the Salamis Naval Battle (480 BC) and as a result, Halicarnassus came under the domination of the Athenians. In 386 BC, following a peace agreement, Caria came again under Persian control and was put under the administration of an old Carian dynasty, who lived in Mylasa. Hecatomanus, who ruled with the Persian title of satrap, had three sons, Mausolus, Idrieus and Pixodarus, and two daughters, Artemisia II and Ada. After his father's death in 377 BC, satrap Mausolus transfered the capital of Caria to Halicarnassus. When Mausolus became so powerful that he regained his title of king and achieved a virtual independence, the city enjoyed its greatest prosperity. In 353 BC, upon his death, his sister and wife queen Artemisia II who was famous for her naval victory over the Rhodians, erected a monument to her husband's memory, the Mausoleum, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Upon the death of Idrieus, his sister and wife Ada ruled until Pixodarus, a faithful ally of the Persians, sent her to exile in Alinda. In 334 BC when Alexander the Great seized the city helped by Ada, the latter was restored on the throne. Halicarnassus was successively incorporated to the Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk Empires, to the Turk Menteşe emirate and to the Ottoman Empire under Beyazıt I. In 1404 Halicarnassus, now called Bodrum by the Turks, was seized by the Knights of Rhodes who built the St Peter Castle. In 1523 Süleyman the Magnificent expelled the Knights from Bodrum and later from Rhodos.

* Herodotus (about 490/485 - 425/420 BC), after taking part in an uprising against the ruling tyrant Lygdamis, was forced to leave his native city Halicarnassus (about 457 BC), for the island of Samos. From there, he undertook journeys to Egypt, Lybia, Phoenicia, Babylon, Asia Minor, Scythia and Colchis (Black Sea Region) , Sparta, Athens, the Athenian colony of Thourioi (Thurii in southern Italy) where he probably spent the rest of his life. Herodotus, known as the Father of History, wrote the “Histories”, published between 430 and 424 BC and divided later into nine books named after the Muses. The book, which describes the expansion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire and the Persian Wars ending with the Greek victories, includes valuable ethnographical and ethnological information. 



When Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, the son of an Ottoman diplomat graduate from Oxford, was exiled to Bodrum in 1924 for a period of three years (in fact reduced to one and a half years) because he had written a story setting people against war, he fell in love with the place and elected to remain there for most of the rest of his life. Bodrum was then a simple and remote place where people lived on fishing and sponge-diving. Under the name "Fisherman of Halicarnassus” using a poetic language, in his numerous novels, stories or articles that reflect his deap culture, he wrote about the Anatolian Civilizations, the beauty and richness of western Anatolia, the humanism of the Aegean people. He introduced new fishing techniques, planted trees and worked hard to embellish and make Bodrum known. In the early 1960s a group of intellectuals from Istanbul, in search of aesthetic ecstasy and spiritual purification, began to visit him in Bodrum. He initiated them to the "Blue Voyage" sailing on a simple boat, where they discovered the natural beauty and the historic richness of south-western Aegean. Later they experienced staying in fishermen’s houses, paying for their room and board (Turkish pansyon). A new fashion was launched. The middle Turkish class elected Bodrum to spend their holiday and Bodrum rapidly became the principal vacation haven of western Turkey.
 

Bodrum which has been declared a historic preservation zone, has a special architecture (houses are generally white-washed and cannot exceed two stories to harmonize with the traditional environment). Today Bodrum has become an extremely fashionable holiday resort. It is a starting point for cruises in the Gökova Gulf, and to discover the numerous beautiful bays of the peninsula. A car ride helps visit the region , see the disused old windmills lining the ridge of hills , and enjoy the atmosphere of seaside and fishing villages: Gümüşlük, Gündoğan, Gölköy, Türkbükü with their friendly taverns and seafood restaurants, Yalıkavak with its typical streets...






 


 
BODRUM
                 
44
DATCA
               
90
46
MARMARiS
             
118
90
50
FETHiYE
           
128
112
66
45
KALKAN
         
146
130
84
56
18
KAS
       
164
148
102
74
38
18
KEKOVA
     
179
161
115
88
53
35
20
FiNiKE
   
210
194
148
119
91
73
58
44
KEMER
 
230
214
165
139
111
83
70
57
20
ANTALYA



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