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  2. Piri Reis map - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. File:Piri reis world map 01.jpg - Wikipedia

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  4. File:Piri Reis Map Translated.svg - Wikipedia

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    † 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.

  5. Piri Reis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 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 ...

  6. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

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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; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy.

  7. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Kitab-ı Bahriye - Wikipedia

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    Piri Reis rejoined the Ottoman Navy for the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and presented the world map to Selim I in 1517. [7] [8] In the following decade, Piri Reis completed two versions of the Kitab-ı Bahriye and a second world map. [6] When Suleiman the Magnificent began his reign in 1520, Ottoman craftsmen offered exemplars of their ...

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