The Crusader Knights reached 1402 and used the ruins of the tomb as a quarry to build the still impressive Castle of Bodrum (St. Peter's Castle), a well-preserved example of the late Crusader architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean. After destroying Tamerlane's old fortresses in the inner bay of Izmir, he was allowed to the Knights Hospital (St. John's Knights) by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed I. The fortress and the city are known as Petronium, so the modern name of Bodrum emerges.
In 1522, Suleiman the Magnificent seized the base of the Crusader knights on the island of Rhodes, then first briefly moved to Sicily and then permanently to Malta, then Saint Peter and Bodrum to the Ottoman Empire.
Bodrum was a quiet fishing and sponge diver city until the middle of the 20th century; As Mansur pointed out, the existence of a large bilingual Turkish community of the lesser provinces of the Southern Deities combined with the free trade and access conditions with the islands of the Southern Deities until 1935 made less provinces. A very useful activity within a very dry peninsula has also prevented the formation of a large landlord's class. Bodrum does not have a significant history of political or religious extremism. The first core nucleus began to form around the writer Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, who came here in exile in the first twenty years after the 1950s, and was brought to the point of adopting the pen name of Halikarnas Balıkçısı by the town.
The population of Bodrum in the 2012 census is 35,795. The surrounding towns and villages had an additional price of 100,522 for the total of 136,317 provinces.
The town of Bodrum is one of 957 in Turkey. In Muğla, which is a part of Aydın Officer who is a part of Aegean Region.
