Piri Reis map
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piri-reis-map-179-8532118
title:
Piri Reis map
text:
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. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather than lines of longitude and latitude. It contains extens
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1513 Ottoman nautical chart
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
date created:
2005-03-17T19:13:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T01:14:26Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Piri_reis_world_map_01.jpg","width":1964,"height":2619}
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13
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