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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.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Ottoman admiral and cartographer (c. 1470 – 1553) Piri Reis Statue of Piri Reis Born Muhiddin Piri c. 1470 Gallipoli, Rumelia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire Died 1553 (aged 82–83) Cairo, Egypt Eyalet, Ottoman Empire Notable work 1513 Piri Reis map Kitab-ı Bahriye Relatives Kemal Reis (uncle ...
† Akçura, Yusuf, Piri Reis Haritasi (1935), p. 34, note 2, by the book's editor. ‡ "Hasan Fehmi Turgal 1883–1939", Türk Kütüphaneciliğine Hizmet Edenler. 7: 185–186. Note: McIntosh (2000) is credited on the map for the identifications of placenames; no text was copied from McIntosh. Placenames on a map are not covered by US copyright.
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]
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Historic map of Kemer by Piri Reis. Kemer was the ancient Greek city of Idyros, member of the Lycian League, which after the Ottoman era was called Eski Köy (Old Village) until a 23 km (14 mi) long stone wall was built in 1916 - 1917 to channel the mountain stream water and protect the town from flooding, which until then had been a persistent problem.
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