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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: Fw: ada bodrum halicarnassos
More information from a different source ( a
tourist site from Turkey ), still related to what was referred as the
source for the Ada-orchid´s name:
When Artemisia II died in the year 351 B.C., she
was succeeded by Idrius who was in turn succeeded by Ada, who
was dethroned by her brother Pixodaros. Meanwhile Alexander the Great
entered Anatolia and made Ada ascend the throne. The Queen’s tomb, discovered in
recent years, is displayed at the museum today. The city which was
captured by Lysimachos following the death of Alexander the Great, was later
subjected to Rhodes and Pergamum, and still later Rome got hold of Anatolia
totally. Owing to the fact that Bodrum was founded upon the ancient city
of Halicarnassos, not much is left to our day from the ancient
city.