PIRI REIS I NJEGOVE KARTE
PIRI REIS AND HIS MAPS

Summary/Abstract: A Turkish seafarer, pirate and admiral, Piri Reis, while sailing the Mediterranean and other nearby seas, sketched the seashores, made detailed notes about his journeys and collected maps. Based on his own notes as well as Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic maps, he made many maps, the most famous of which were the two maps of the World. They were discovered when the Topkapi Saray palace was turned into museum. Unfortunately, neither one was found complete. From the first one we have only the western part; both Americas, with the Greenland on the north and the Azores in the center. On the opposite side are the costs of Africa and the Pyrenean.

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