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Project Riese in 1944. Riese (; German for "giant") was the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945. It consisted of seven underground structures in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle in Lower Silesia, which was then Nazi Germany and is now Poland.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
Gross-Rosen main camp. Below is the list of subcamps of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a complex of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. [1]
Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, [1] directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau).
The 1528 map was a portolan chart like his earlier works. It uses a windrose network radiating out from compass roses. [132] The map does include one line of latitude, the Tropic of Cancer; it is slightly south of the correct position for Cuba and the Yucatan. [133] The map uses standard portolan colors and symbols.
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The map synthesizes information from many maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean. Türkçe: Osmanlı amirali Piri Reis tarafından 1513'te çizilmiş olan, Avrupa ve Afrika'nın batı kıyılarıyla Güney Amerika'nın doğu kıyılarını gösteren dünyanın en eski haritalarından biri olan Piri Reis'in ilk Dünya ...
Map showing the locations of the Führer Headquarters throughout Europe. The Führer Headquarters (German: Führerhauptquartiere), abbreviated FHQ, were a number of official headquarters used by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and various other German commanders and officials throughout Europe during World War II. [1]