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noun - an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey
An ancient Greek city of southwest Asia Minor on the Aegean Sea in present-day Turkey.
HALICARNASSUS - Halicarnassus (; Ancient Greek: Halikarnssós or Alikarnssós; Turkish: Halikarnas) was an ancient Greek city which stood on the site of modern Bod...
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The Mausoleum at --, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
Greek colony on the SW coast of Asia Minor |
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Feb 22 2015 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
Jan 19 2009 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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Halicarnassus (; Ancient Greek: Halikarnssós or Alikarnssós; Turkish: Halikarnas) was an ancient Greek city which stood on the site of modern Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, also known simply as the Tomb of Mausolus, whose name provided the origin of the word "mausoleum". The mausoleum, built between 353 BC and 350 BC, ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. * Halicarnassus formed part of the Persian Empire until Alexander the Great captured it at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC. * Halicarnassus originally occupied only a small island near to the shore called Zephyria, which was the original name of the settlement and the present site of the great Castle of St. Peter built by the Knights of Rhodes in 1404; but in the course of time the island united with the mainland and the city extended to incorporate Salmacis, an older town of the L |