Piri Reis
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Piri Reis was an Ottoman Turkish cartographer, admiral, and corsair. He is best known for his 1513 world map and his nautical atlas, the Kitab-ı Bahriye. His cartography engaged more directly with the
Statue of Piri Reis in Karaman, Turkey
Model of a galley from the early modern period
Venice as depicted in the Kitab-ı Bahriye
Aden as illustrated in the 16th-century Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Kitab-ı Bahriye
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The Kitab-ı Bahriye is a navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atl
Piri Reis
…1465–1470; died 1553) was an Ottoman Turkish cartographer, admiral, and corsair. He is best known for his 1513 world map and his nautical atlas, the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of the Sea). His cartography engaged more directly with the Age of Discovery than other Ottoman works from the period. His maps provide a glimpse…
A copy open to the page on Corsica
Djerba on the North African coast
First version, Sicily, Bibliothèque nationale manuscript turc 220, copied late sixteenth or seventeenth century