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SUMMARY
In the immediate vicinity of the Myrelaion church (today Bodrum Camii) two palatial buildings dated to the byzantine period were excavated before and after the World War II. The earlier building (5th century?) was a huge rotunda preceded with a semicircular portico. The later, possibly Middle Byzantine palace was erected directly on the top of the ruins of the rotunda palace. The later palace was once a property of the emperor Romanos I Lacapenos (920-944) who converted it into a nunnery and also added the still existing cross-in-square church in which he and members of his family were buried. |
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