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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...
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    Muhiddin Piri (c. 1470 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis), was an Ottoman corsair, navigator, geographer, and cartographer. He is...
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    the map to a priest, the god being an extraterrestrial being. But Piri Reis said that he had drawn that map himself using older maps, and the map is consistent...
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  • 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...
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  • Biography portal Cuoghi, D., 2002, Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map Hoye, P. F., with P. Lunde, 1980, Piri Reis and the Hapgood Hypotheses. Archived 2012-08-29...
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  • Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral. He was also the paternal uncle of the famous Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis,...
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    century. 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;...
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    Empire. Examples include: Piri "Reis" Turgut "Reis" Uluç Ali "Reis" Hizir "Reis" Seydi Ali "Reis" Oruç "Reis" The rank Reis Pasha referred to an Admiral...
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    Kitab-ı Bahriye (category Piri Reis)
    كتاب بحرية, lit. 'Book of the Sea') is a navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and...
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    included a map of the Americas.: 106  The Piri Reis map drawn by the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis in 1513, is one of the oldest surviving maps to show...
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    may have been ice free until about 6,000 years ago, referring to the Piri Reis map and Hapgood's work from the 1960s. What is left entirely unmentioned...
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    regularly on maps lying south west of Galway Bay until 1865, by which time it was called Brasil Rock. Catalan atlas from 1375 Piri Reis' map of Europe and...
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    McIntosh, Gregory C. (2000). The Piri Reis Map of 1513. University of Georgia Press. p. 230. Dutch, Steven. "The Piri Reis Map". Archived from the original...
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    Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. A picture of an Ottoman barca on Piri Reis' map shows a deep-hulled ship with a tall forecastle and a lateen sail on...
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  • Cart Ruts, Għar Dalam, Sirius 4 Ghosts of a Drowned World Bimini Road, Piri Reis map of 1513, Shark Island (Bimini) 5 Legacy of the Sages Göbekli Tepe, Karahan...
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    Atlas (redirect from Map atlas)
    Dell'Arcano del Mare (Robert Dudley, England/Italy, 1645–1661) Piri Reis map (Piri Reis, Ottoman Empire, 1570–1612) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius,...
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    Lord Raphael Sanchez, March 14, 1493). McIntosh, Gregory C (2000). The Piri Reis Map of 1513. University of Georgia Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8203-2157-8...
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    University Press. 1981.[1]. See also Kirsten A. Seaver, Maps, Myths and Men. The story of the Vinland Map, Stanford University Press, p. 41. P. B. Taylor, "The...
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    geographer Mahmud al-Kashgari drew a world map on a linguistic basis, and later so did Piri Reis (Piri Reis map). Further, Islamic scholars translated and...
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    species, and the various effects of climate change. Early world maps, like the 1513 Piri Reis map, feature the hypothetical continent Terra Australis. Much...
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  • Moai of Easter Island. Further examples include an early world map known as the Piri Reis map, which von Däniken describes as showing Earth as it is seen...
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    Ottomans. Piri Reis, who was famous for his World Map, presented it to Selim just a few weeks after the sultan arrived in Egypt. Part of the 1513 map, which...
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  • Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513)...
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    1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I was presented with a map of the New World drawn by Piri Reis, which included an image of a dog-headed man fighting a...
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  • Link, the Java Man, Lucy, Tiwanaku, Stonehenge, the Giza pyramids, the Piri Reis map, Atlantis, and the Pole shift hypothesis. Michael Cremo, co-author of...
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  • Khordadbeh) Tabula Rogeriana Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar Mu'jam Al-Buldan Rihla The Meadows of Gold Piri Reis map Kitab al-Kharaj Influences Geography (Ptolemy)...
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    mundi Naming of the Americas Piri Reis map Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered to be the first true modern atlas. World map Lehmann, Martin (December 31...
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    the most accurate world map in pre-modern times. Piri Reis (1465 – c. 1554), whose Piri Reis map is the oldest surviving world map to include the Americas...
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    site in North America outside of Greenland Piri Reis map Skálholt Map Weimar map Seaver, Kirsten A. (2004). Maps, Myths and Men. Stanford University Press...
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    from the Cantino map. The Cavario Map is currently kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Early world maps Piri Reis map Mcintosh, Gregory...
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