Marmaris

The boondocks of Marmaris is amid at the affair abode of the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Marmaris is one of the better accustomed harbors in the apple amidst by pine-clad hills.

Situated in the south-west of Turkey, in Mugla province, Marmaris is one of Turkey's better anniversary resorts. To the arctic lies the Gulf of Gökova; to the south, the Mediterranean. Datca Peninsula avalanche to the western ancillary and to the east is the Lake of Köycegiz. The hills alive into the sea and the admirable accolade accomplish Marmaris the jewel she is. Many foreigners, abnormally Scandinavian nationals, accept bought backdrop in and about Marmaris for their holidays or for the retirement.

The boondocks is 60 kilometers from the bigoted basic of Mugla and the aerial attributes of the surrounding countryside agency that forestry plays an important allotment in the area's economy. The boondocks boundaries are amid by 65,000 hectares of backwoods area.

History

It is not accepted for assertive if Marmaris was founded. However, as Marmaris ahead accepted as Physkos, was allotment of the Carian Empire in the 6th aeon BC afore she was beat by the Lydians. Another aggression by the Lydians in 334 BC led to the allotment of the Roman Empire disqualified by Alexander the Great.

According to the historian Heredotus, the Carians advancing from Crete, acclimatized in the breadth which is now accepted as the arena of Mugla. They aswell took over the boondocks of Physkos with its accustomed anchorage and acclimated it as a aggressive abject and to enhance barter amid Rhodes and the added Aegean Islands. The Carian acculturation entered a aphotic aeon afterwards 300 BC, advancing beneath the administration of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Ionians, and Dorians successively. The Dorians colonized the Carian arena and disconnected the arena into 9 cities, two of which were Halicarnassos and Cnidos. These two cities after on became an alive barter centre and anchorage of Anatolia specializing in handicrafts.

In 138 BC Attalos the 3rd King of Pergamon, whose predecessors had disqualified Caria for 90 years, ceded Physkos to Rome and the city-limits was disqualified from Rhodes by Roman generals. The city-limits became allotment of the Ottoman Empire in 1425, and the alcazar was congenital in 1521 AD for use in a planned advance aloft Rhodes. The Ottoman Sultan at the time, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, afflicted the name of the boondocks to Mimaras, which again became Marmaris according to historian Evliya Celebi.

A bounded rumor has it that the acumen for the change of name to Mimaras was that Süleyman, on abiding from his campaign to Rhodes, awful the alcazar and said "Mimar as!", which agency "Hang the architect!". Unfortunately there is no affirmation to abutment this agreeable story.

Castle

According to the historian Herodotus, there has been a alcazar in Marmaris aback 3000 BC. During the Hellenistic Age Caria was invaded by Alexander the Great and the alcazar was besieged. The 600 citizenry of the boondocks accomplished that they had no adventitious adjoin the advancing army and austere their backing in the alcazar afore artifice to the hills with their women and children. The invaders alive the cardinal amount of the castle, repaired the destroyed sections to abode a few hundred soldiers afore the capital army alternate home.

The 17th aeon biographer Evliya Celebi mentions the castle, which was rebuilt by Kanuni Sultan Süleyman in 1522 if he invaded Rhodes.

Since 1979, advance plan has been continuing at the castle, in adjustment to restore it aback to aboriginal condition. Beneath the advocacy of the Ministry of Culture, the alcazar has been adapted into a museum. There are seven galleries, of which the better is getting acclimated as an exhibition anteroom and the courtyard is busy with melancholia flowers.