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Bodrum (formerly '''Budrum''', previously '''Petronium''', originally '''Halicarnassus''') is a Turkish port in Muğla Province . It is on the Bodrum Peninsula, near the northwest entrance to the Gulf Of Gökova , and faces the Greek island of Kos . Today, it is a center of Tourism and Yacht ing. It is the ancient Halicarnassus of Caria , renowned for the Mausoleum . The town is very popular tourist resort for northern Europeans due to its attractive coastline and active night-life (Bodrum has been humorously referred to as the "Bedroom of Europe"}. It can safely be said that every year at least a few hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Bodrum. The permanent population is 32,227 ( 2000 census). HISTORY OF BODRUM Under the Persian Empire , it was nominally tha capital city of the Satrap y of Caria; its location ensured the city enjoyed considerable autonomy. In ancient times, it was known as Halicarnassus. Mausolus made the city his capital. When he died in 353 BC , his wife, Artemisia , employed the Greek architects Satyros and Pithios , and the sculptor Scopas to build a monument to him, the first Mausoleum , one of the Seven Wonders Of The World . The Knights Of Rhodes built the Castle Of St. Peter starting in 1402 . The castle and its town became known as Petronium, whence the modern name derives. Suleiman The Magnificent took Petronium for the Ottomans in 1522 . (Requires additional information;450 years missing.) By the mid-1980s, Bodrum became an important tourist resort in Turkey, along with Marmaris , Çeşme , Kuşadası , Antalya , and Alanya . in the center]] SEE ALSO
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