History of Bodrum
Of the Bodrum peninsula, at least when you opened the pages of history so rich in natural beauty, you can enjoy the privilege of discovering hidden treasures.
How long has the history of the Bodrum peninsula dates back? More than 5,000 years! In 1991, the archaeologists studied the Peynir Cicegi Cave in Gündoğan, and found pots and jars of painted ceramics from the Chalcolithic (Copper-Stone) age (5,000 - 3,000 BC) and a stone ax. This discovery is important as it is an example of the Chalcolithic cave settlement rarely found in Western Anatolia. The Bronze Age (3,000-1,200 BC) was an active period in which copper-tin alloy tools and bronze weapons were made in Anatolia. In the peninsula, BC. belonging to the 1400-1200 year, the late Bronze Age Mycenaean tombs were found.
After around 1,000 years before Christ in the Trojan War who have migrated to Greece and the Aegean islands from the Dorians, a settlement founded Halicarnassus they gave the name of the small island in the bay. Dorians lived together with the Karyi and Lelegian tribes, who lived in the interior and preserved their identity until the 400s before Christ.
Lelegians, with a dry stone wall, using their own methods they lived in settlements built on eight separate hill. The ancient city of Pedasa, which is known as the Lelege and is located in the Konacık hills, is one of the historical places worth seeing. Among other ancient hilltop settlements, Alazeytin and farm village on the Syangela and Theangela, Connect with Telmossos in Gürece takes place in the upper Termera their backs. Nowadays, the structure of these ancient sites and the remains of walls still extends along the way; even Lelegian Road near some ways, the region is in good condition and you can walk up to your eyes can revive it did then.
