(2000 pop. 35,000). In the early twentieth century, Bodrum was a remote fishing village on the Aegean Sea coast in Turkey, but today it is a sophisticated and free-spirited holiday resort. In ancient times, Bodrum was known as Halicarnassus, a city in...

Bodrum (Turkish: Bodrum from Petronium; formerly Halicarnassus (Turkish: Halikarnas, 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...

BODRUM, on Turkey's Aegean coast, is party-town-on-sea. More than 200 hotels jostle for views of its spectacular bay and 16th-century castle, and along the shore, restaurants and bars spill on to waterside terraces. After dark, clubbers, yachting folk and wealthy Istanbulites get down to...

PLATE WITH A VIEW THE PLATE High above the ancient city of Halikarnassos (now known as Bodrum) the Marmara Hotel perches upon a what is virtually a cliff face since a bypass for the city was cut into the hillside below. Its...

Visits by Americans to Turkey have finally returned to pre-2001 levels, with 532,000 U.S. visitor arrivals in 2006, according to statistics from the Turkish government.In the year 2000, some 515,000 Americans visited Turkey, but that number dropped following the Sept. 11th attacks, with only 222,000...