Crusader Toilets
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Tamerlane invaded Anatolia in 1402, reducing the control of the Ottoman Empire over south-western Anatolia. The Knights Hospitalier, also known as the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, built the Castle of Saint Peter at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (now Bodrum, Turkey). These are the toilets. |
The site had been a fortification in Doric times (1110 BC), and was probably the site of the palace of King Mausulos.
The castle construction started in 1402. Various extensions and reconstructions continued for at least a century. In the early 1500s the Tomb of King Mausulos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was disassembled to fortify the castle.
The castle fell to Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522. It was used as a military base by the Turks through the 1800s. In 1895 it was converted into a prison.
It was an Italian garrison 1917-1921, but the Italians withdrew when Atatürk came to power. It stood empty for 40 years, becoming the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in 1962.
See the Wikipedia page for more on the castle's history.
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