Bodrum History
The city passed into the hands of the Anatolian MenteÅŸe Principality in the second half of the XII century. In the XIV century, it was ruled by St. Sean John of the Sovereigns of Rhodes. In the city in 1452 by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent he joined the Earth. Since then, the Ottoman Navy shipyards, as well as being a natural harbor characterized by having an important place in the Ottoman territories in Bodrum, after a long exile from the Republic insignificant place and stayed in a small town. After the star shone among the priority areas in the basement starting to show improvement after the 1970s tourism. Seeking a quiet town, longing to be alone with nature also suffered a lot of artists flocked to Bodrum is one of Turkey's most important tourism and entertainment centers these days.
We can easily say that Bodrum has a reputation today in the brilliant eras of Karya.
Mills
The wind, where people have taken advantage of their power for a long time, has been used in Bodrum for years to grind grains. Windmills, which have survived to the present day, have been a source of livelihood and food for people in Bodrum and its vicinity.
It is possible to see the windmills on each top of the Bodrum Peninsula where there are no streams. In the mills built on the hills where the cool winds reigned in the burning heat, the millers saw the works of bringing wheat and in exchange for some grain.
Today the windmills do not only tell the history. Use your ancestors were clean and cheap energy for years before obtaining the first nerelerdesiniz der almost like giving lectures at today, they are showing the way.