Bodrum Castle

Bodrum Castle (Turkish: Bodrum Kalesi) is a historical fortification located in southwest Turkey in the port city of Bodrum, built from 1402 onwards, by the Knights of St John (Knights Hospitaller) as the Castle of St. Peter or Petronium. A transnational effort, it has four towers known as the English, French, German, and Italian towers, bearing the names of the nations responsible for their construction. The chapel was built around 1407 and the first walls completed in 1437. The castle started reconstruction in the late 15th century, only to be taken over by the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1523. The chapel was converted to a mosque, and a minaret was added. The castle remained under the empire for almost 400 years. After remaining empty following World War I, in the early 1960s, the castle became the home for the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. In 2016 it was inscribed in the UNESCO Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey.

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Bodrum Castleは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界284位（全3,734件中）、トルコの51件では9位にランクされています。1522年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の47%より古い城です（16世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の351件のひとつ）。トルコが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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