Bodrum

one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

thumb|A white-washed windmill in Bodrum Bodrum () is a town and district of Muğla Province in Turkey. It is a port town at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Known in ancient times as Halicarnassus, the town was once home to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, also known as the tomb of Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

thumb|Ancient cities of Caria|alt=Map of ancient cities of Caria

fortification

international airport that serves the Turkish towns of Bodrum and Milas

siege between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 334 BC

Myndus () or Myndos () was an ancient Dorian colony of Troezen, on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor (Turkey), sited on the Bodrum Peninsula, a few miles northwest of Halicarnassus. The site is now occupied by the modern village of Gümüşlük.

Caryanda or Karyanda () was a city on the coast of ancient Caria in southwestern Anatolia. Stephanus of Byzantium describes it as a city and harbour (λίμην) near Myndus and Cos. But λιμήν, in the text of Stephanus, is an emendation or alteration: the manuscripts use the word λίμνη ('lake'). Strabo places Caryanda between Myndus and Bargylia, and he describes it, according to the common text, as "a lake, and island of the same name with it;" and thus the texts of Stephanus, who derived his information from Strabo, agree with the texts of Strabo. Pliny simply mentions the island Caryanda with a

ancient Greek theatre of Halicarnassos, altered in Roman times, in Bodrum, Turkey

Strobilos (), modern Aspat or Çıfıt Kalesi, is a Byzantine-era fortress on the south-western Anatolian coast, across from the island of Kos and near modern Bodrum in Turkey.

island in Turkey

Aegean gulf of Turkey

story of drowned child from capsized refugee boat

Pedasa ( or τὰ Πήδασα), also known as Pedasus or Pedasos (Πήδασος), and as Pedasum, was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) by . Alexander the Great deprived the place of its independence by giving it over to the Halicarnassians, together with five other neighbouring towns.

Island of Turkey