Bodrum

district and town of Muğla, Turkey

Bodrum is a tourist resort in Turkey. It is in Muğla Province, along the Aegean Sea. Thousands of tourists come every year for sun and beach tourism. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification).

A market in Bodrum
Bodrum Castle mosque

Famous singer Zeki Müren died in Bodrum. Herodotus, an Ancient Greek Historian, lived in Bodrum. Turgut Reis was a Bodrumer who was an Ottoman admiral.

Further reading change

Bodream, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Anagramme Ed., 2010, (ISBN 978-2-35035-279-4)