Hal·i·car·nas·sus (h l  -kär-ns  s) An ancient Greek city of southwest Asia Minor on the Aegean Sea in present-day Turkey. In the fourth century b.c. Queen Artemisia built a magnificent tomb here for her husband, King Mausolus. His mausoleum was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. |
Halicarnassus [ˌhælɪkɑːˈnæsəs]
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(Placename) a Greek colony on the SW coast of Asia Minor: one of the major Hellenistic cities
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| Noun | 1. | Halicarnassus - an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 |
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