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Bodrum ( from Petronium; formerly Halicarnassus (, Ancient Greek: ''Αλικαρνασσός'')) 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 yachting. The city was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times (...)

'', from a 1572 engraving by Marten Heemskerk (1498–1574), who based his reconstruction on descriptions The Tomb of Maussollos, Mausoleum of Maussollos or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (in Greek, ') was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus — a satrap in the Persian Empire — and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife (...)

in the city of Bodrum , was built by the Knights Hospitaller starting in 1402 as the Castle of St. Peter or ''Petronium''. (...)