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    Ahmed Muhiddin Piri (c. 1465 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis or Hacı Ahmet Muhittin Pîrî Bey), was an Ottoman navigator, geographer...
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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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  • Piri Reis University (Turkish: Piri Reis Üniversitesi) (common usage: Piri Reis Maritime University) is a private university founded by the Turkish Maritime...
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  • 16th-century Ottoman Navy admirals Piri Reis, Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, Murat Reis the Elder, Aydın Reis, Seydi Ali Reis and Selman Reis. Two submarines, the USS Mapiro (SS-376)...
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    Peninsula (Hejaz and Tihamah) soon fell voluntarily to the Ottomans. Piri Reis, who was famous for his World Map, presented it to Selim just a few weeks...
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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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  • 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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  • The RV K. Piri Reis (full name Koca Piri Reis) is a Turkish multi purpose research vessel owned by Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir and operated by its...
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    lines. Von Däniken wrote in Chariots of the Gods? that a version of the Piri Reis map depicted some Antarctic mountains that were and still are buried in...
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    Kitab-ı Bahriye (category Piri Reis)
    navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. After his uncle Kemal Reis died, Piri Reis returned home to Gallipoli...
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    Capture of Aden (1548) (category Piri Reis)
    December 2013). "Pîrî Reis'in Hürmüz Seferi ve İdamı Hakkındaki Türk ve Portekiz Tarihçilerinin Düşünceleri" [The Military Expedition of Piri Reis to Hormuz...
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  • Murat Reis the Elder (Turkish: Koca Murat Reis; Albanian: Murat Reis Plaku c. 1534 – 1609) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral, who served in the Ottoman...
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    century to the 18th century. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of...
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    (Ertuğrul, Söğütlü), 1 destroyer (Taşoz), 4 gunboats (Burak Reis, Hızır Reis, Kemal Reis, İsa Reis), 1 minelayer (Nusret), 1 aviso (Galata), 4 tugs and 7 motorboats...
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  • supported the suggestion made by Arlington Mallery that a part of the Piri Reis map was a depiction of the area of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land...
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    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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    Capture of Muscat (1552) (category Piri Reis)
    Indian Ocean. This time they attacked with a larger fleet under Piri Reis and Seydi Ali Reis. Their ultimate objective was to seize the islands of Hormuz...
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  • and carpenter Piri Reis (c. 1465–c. 1554), Ottoman Empire admiral, geographer and cartographer Piri Thomas (1928–2011), writer and poet Piri Vaszary (1901–1965)...
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    Ottoman campaign against Hormuz (category Piri Reis)
    Hormuz took place in 1552–1554. An Ottoman fleet led by Admiral Piri Reis and Seydi Ali Reis was dispatched from the Ottoman harbour of Suez to eliminate...
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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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    he 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...
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  • his son after him. Aruj, Hayreddin Barbarossa, Kemal Reis, Piri Reis and Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis operated together in the Mediterranean in many occasions...
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  • the West Indies. The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third...
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    such as Kemal Reis before him; his brother Oruç Reis and other contemporaries Turgut Reis, Salih Reis, Piri Reis and Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis; or Piyale...
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    USS Tang (SS-563) (category Piri Reis)
    Navy becoming the TCG Pirireis (S 343), after Ottoman-Turkish admiral Piri Reis. Pirireis served in the Turkish Submarine Forces until she was decommissioned...
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  • (written in 1637) into Arabic. Ottoman admiral Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis or Hacı Ahmet Muhittin Pîrî Bey) was a navigator, geographer and cartographer...
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  • USS Mapiro (redirect from Piri Reis (ship))
    Program to Turkey. The Turkish Navy renamed her TCG Pirireis (S-343), after Piri Reis (ca. 1465–1554), an Ottoman admiral and cartographer. She left San Francisco...
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  • Tuna Astepe in the lead roles. The series depicts the lives of Oruc Reis and Hizir Reis, two consecutive "Kapudan Pasha" of the Ottoman Empire. Barbaros:...
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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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  • Turkey (e.g., Piri Reis), and was also used by some European Jews. It is a name associated with a great number of people: Alves dos Reis (1896–1955), Portuguese...
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