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The most prominent feature of
Bodrum is the castle of St. Peter.
The castle's origins date back to the knights of St. John
This group of expatriates began in the 11th century with a church and hospital
in Jerusalem. Although belonging to he Catholic religion care was denied to no-one.
When the knights arrived they instructed their builders to remove all usable
materials from the tomb of King Mausolos as the castle construction began in the
1400's.
The knights refered to the town as Mesy not knowing that they where in the
ancient Halicarnassus
The fortress became known as the Castle of St. Peter, the Liberator, it served
as the sole place of refugee
for all Christians on the West Coast of Asia during the time of the crusades.
For over a century the castle served as a stronghold in the knights community.
Under Turkish care the castle has undergone several uses including being a
military base, a prison and a public bath.
But now it is one of the finest museums in this region.
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The Amphi-theatre
The theatre is another witness to the great past of Bodrum. Situated in the
hillside over looking Bodrum this theatre whose capacity is around 13.000 was
built during te Carian reign in the Hellenistic age (330 - 30 BC.). The theatre
consists of three different sections: a place for the audience, a place for an
orchestra and the stage. It became an open-air museum after the excavations in
1973.
The Myndos gate
Located on the west side of Bodrum, this is one of the two entrances of ancient
Halicarnassus. It was part of the towns wall. The gate is named after the place
Myndos because it faces the ancient Myndos place (now Gümüslük).
A big handshake should go first to the companies Ericsson and Turkcell, who
sponsored the excavation of Bodrum's town walls, which are a remarkable example
of ancient Western Anatolia architecture.
Only some parts of the city walls remained until today. An important part of the
town wall was the Myndos Gate where the soldiers of Alexander (*the great*) had
a hard time to come into the town of Halicarnassus in 333 BC. After they
captured the city they destroyed all buildings except the Mausoleum, which was
one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Extensive excavation and restoration has been done by the archeologists to bring
this spot from ancient times to be better realized now. It is expected that the
whole restoration of the town wall of nearly 4,5 kilometers will take four to
five years to complete.
According to Arrianus, who describes this gate and and the siege of Alexander
the Great in 334, this gate had originally three towers (that's why it was
described as 'Tripollion'). It was also mentioned that in front of the gate was
a ditch of 8 meters depth and 15 meters long. The middle part of the gate is
totally destroyed now but ruins from the two other parts still exist and consist
of huge and heavy square stones.
Tombs were found here and opened by Newton in the last century. They dated back
to Hellenistic and Roman times and were made from burned clay.
When Alexander the Great in the autumn of 334 BC came to Halicarnassus, he had
his headquarters somewhere near here. His first attack was towards the Milas
gate, which does not exist anymore, but he couldn't succeed. On the
Halicarnassus side were fighting the Persian generals Oronbates and Memnon from
Rhodos. After a couple of days he tried with the Myndos gate. But again there
was much resistance. Then he built a wooden bridge over the 8 m. ditch, packed
some of his Macedonian soldiers into wooden towers and carried them close to the
gate, but the people of Halicarnassus came out and tried to burn those towers
and started fighting, the bridge collapsed after a while and there was a big
panic on both sides. Despite the fact that many of their own warriors outside
were killed, the Halicarnassus allies Memnon and Oronbates closed the gate, went
to the castle and from the harbour they sailed to Kos.
Alexander the Great conquered the town then and destroyed the whole place, only
the mausoleum he didn't touch, and then he proceeded southwards to Phrygia.
Here - as nearly everywhere in Turkey Archaeologists expect to find more remains
underneath the rubble of 17 centuries .
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