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5th century AD – archaeological remains reported in 2007 indicate Visigoth occupation; 9th century – Muhammad I of Córdoba ordered the construction of an Alcazar; 1085 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile takes the city in the Reconquista. [1] 1339 – Treaty of Madrid secures collaboration between Aragon and Castile; 1499 –
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 ...
Early 16th century representation of the alcázar by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen. By the end of the Middle Ages, Madrid was placed as middle to upper-middle rank town of the Castilian urban network in terms of population. [21] The town also enjoyed a vote at the Cortes of Castile (one out of 18) and housed many hermitages and hospitals. [22]
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th century in Istanbul" ... 21st; Pages in category "16th century in Istanbul" The following 5 pages are in ...
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 recognizable.
Casa de las Siete Chimeneas Map of Madrid by Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (1656) Madrid first became the capital in the 16th century, Spain's Golden Age. The kingdom underwent enormous economic growth by virtue of its provinces in Hispanoamerica. The Habsburgs commissioned a variety of buildings and infrastructure projects, in order to represent ...
Depiction of Istanbul, then known in English as Constantinople, from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Neolithic artifacts, uncovered by archeologists at the beginning of the 21st century, indicate that Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE. [1]
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier, inaugurating the Köprülü political dynasty, a family of viziers, warriors, and statesmen who dominated the administration of the empire during the last half of the 17th century, an era known as the Köprülü era (c. 1656–1703). 1658