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Bodrum For All Seasons

Although known mostly as a summer holiday destination, Bodrum is becoming increasingly popular with visitors in the other seasons. The reasons are many, but probably foremost is the chance to enjoy its attractions more intimately by avoiding the hubbub of high season.

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Rediscovered Bodrum

In 1927, when Bodrum was a small fishing, sponge diving and agricultural village with a population of 4902, a writer named Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli arrived to serve his sentence of exile under fortress arrest in the Bodrum Castle.

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Nuggets and Tidbits Over Lightly

Previous excavations near Muskebi (now Ortakent) identified human habitation in the Mycenaean Age, ca. 1600 B.C. More than forty burial places dating back to that time were discovered and a rich collection of artifacts found there is now housed in the Bodrum Castle.

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Famous Sons & Daughters

When Bodrum still bore the name "Halicarnassus", the capital of Caria, the city and its peninsula produced a considerable number of prominent personalities whose names continue to be celebrated in history. In later ages others gained admission to this Roll of the Renowned - which is not closed yet.

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