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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Then and Now

Tomb of Mausolus, ruler of Caria, completed around 350 BC and counted among the Seven Wonders. Earthquakes brought it down, and the Knights of St John reused its stones to build Bodrum Castle.

As it was
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, as it was
Model of the Mausoleum in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Jona Lendering, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The site today
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the site today
User: (WT-shared) Johnycanal at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayTurkey
StatusLost
Date350 BC
Nearest city on the mapİzmir (about 156 km)
Location37.038° N, 27.424° E
Map showing Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in 400 BCMausoleum at Halicarnassus
Border map for 400 BC. See Europe in 400 BC.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–324 BCAchaemenid Empire
323 BC–301 BCEmpire of Alexander
300 BC–201 BCKingdom of Antigonus
200 BC–101 BCSeleucid Kingdom
100 BC–2 BCRoman Republic
1 BC–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Diocletianus)
400–799Eastern Roman Empire
800–1399Byzantine Empire
1400–1491Beylik of Aydin
1492–1919Ottoman Empire
1920–1929Italy
1930–1937Republic of Turkey
1938–todayTurkey

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