Bodrum
Template:Infobox Place in Turkey/Maintenance/County
Table of Contents
· 1 Geography
o 1.1 Geographical location
· 2 Administration
· 3 History
· 4 Culture and sights
o 4.1 Museums
o 4.2 Buildings
· 5 Economy and infrastructure
o 5.1 Boat building
o 5.2 Tourism
o 5.3 Traffic
· 6 Personalities
· 7 Photographic impressions from Bodrum
· 8 twin cities[3]
· 9 Web links
· 10 Individual references
Bodrum is a municipality (belediye) in the Ilçe (county) of the same name in Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey and also a borough of the Büyükşehir belediyesi Muğla (metropolitan municipality/metropolitan province) formed in 2012. Since the territorial reform from 2013, the municipality is identical to the county in terms of area and population.
Geography
Geographical position
The city is located on the Aegean coast, facing away from the inland, in a theater-shaped bulge of land from the foothills of the Taurus Mountains. The coastal landscape near Bodrum is richly indented with islands, peninsulas, bays and capes. In about half an hour you can reach the Greek island of Kos by ship.
The county/municipality is situated on a peninsula bordering Milas to the north and east, otherwise Bodrum is surrounded by the waters of the Aegean Sea. It is the westernmost part of the province/Büyükşehir, has the largest population as well as the highest population density of the province, about three and a half times higher than the provincial value.
Admin
The district (or Kaza as a predecessor) already existed before the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. 15,694 inhabitants (on an area of 690 km²) were counted in the 27 villages and the town of Bodouroum (at that time, spelling based on French; 4290 inhabitants) at the first census, on 28 October 1927.
(Until) the end of 2012, the county consisted of ten municipalities in addition to the county seat (Belediye: Bitez, Göltürkbükü, Gümüşlük, Gündoğan, Konacık, Mumcular, Ortakentyahşi, Turgutreis, Yalı and Yalıkavak) and 20 villages (Köy) in three bucaks (Karaova, Ortakent and Turgutreis), which were transferred to mahalle (districts/localities) during the 2013/2014 administrative reform. The twelve existing mahalle of the district town were retained, while the 26 mahalle of the ten above-mentioned belediye were united and reduced to one mahalle each. By downgrading these belediye and villages to mahalle, their number increased to 42. They are presided over by a muhtar as the chief official.
At the end of 2020, an average of 3,242. people lived in each mahalle, 12,078 inhabitants in the most populous one (Çırkan Mah. ).
