Halicarnassus - Turkey

Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) was an ancient IonianGreek city of Caria, located on the Gulf of Cerameicus inAnatolia. According to tradition it was founded by Dorian Greeks of the Peloponnese. The most famous of her sons, the historianHerodotus, wrote that in early times the city participated in the Dorian festival of Apollo at Triopion, but the city’s literature and culture appear completely Ionic and Herodotus’ own Historieswere written in Ionic Greek.

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