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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.
When Piri Reis' world map was unearthed in 1929, it received international media attention for containing the surviving piece of an otherwise lost map of Christopher Columbus. [91] Turkey's first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , took an interest in the map and initiated projects to publish facsimiles and conduct research. [ 146 ]
Regarding public domain status of the translation source in Turkey: the work was published in 1935, Akçura died in 1935 †, the assistant who he says helped transcribe the text, Hasan Fehmi Turgal, died in 1939. ‡ † Akçura, Yusuf, Piri Reis Haritasi (1935), p. 34, note 2, by the book's editor.
English: Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513. Only part of the original map survives and is held at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. The map synthesizes information from many maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean.
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; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy.
Fragment of the Piri Reis map by Piri Reis in 1513. The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily
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Map of Tenedos (Bozcaada) by the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis (16th century) Map of Tenedo by Flemish painter Jacob Peeters (1690) Tenedos was occupied by Sultan Mehmet II in 1455, two years after his Conquest of Constantinople ending the Byzantine empire. [57] It became the first island controlled by the Ottoman Empire in the Aegean sea. [79]