File:Piri Reis map of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.jpg

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العربية: نسخة عن خريطة تعود لِأواخر القرن السادس عشر الميلادي، منقولة عن الأصل المُنتجة سنة 1525م والمُدرجة ضمن كتاب البحريَّة من تأليف پيري ريِّس
English: a late 16th century copy of the 1525 Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation) by Piri Reis
Date late 16th century (Original upload date on en:wikipedia by Flavius Belisarius, 13 August 2007)
Source Library of Istanbul University. No:6605
Author
Piri Reis  (circa 1467
date QS:P,+1467–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
– circa 1554
date QS:P,+1554–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
)  wikidata:Q217915 q:it:Piri Reìs
 
Piri Reis
Alternative names
Hac Ahmed Muhiddin Piri
Description Ottoman geographer, cartographer, military officer and admiral
Date of birth/death 1470 Edit this at Wikidata 1554 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gallipoli Cairo
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creator QS:P170,Q217915

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