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Halicarnassus

Ancient city in Asia Minor (now Bodrum in Turkey), where the tomb of Mausolus, built about 350 BC by widowed Queen Artemisia, was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Greek historian Herodotus was born there.



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Once the ancient city of Halikarnassos, Bodrum and its nearby peninsula is traditionally the most popular and desirable place to own a property in Turkey.
The architectural sculpture from major monuments such as the temples at Bassai, Epidauros, Tegea, Mazi and Ephesos, or the tombs at Halikarnassos and Xanthos (in part three) are briefly outlined, with a few-choice photographs and line drawings.
Neither the world of Odysseus nor the world of Hesiod would find the Demaratos of Dionysios of Halikarnassos (Roman Antiquities 3.
 
 
 
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