A symposium marking the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first world map by renowned Ottoman sailor and cartographer Piri Reis began on Monday in Ankara. Piri Reis produced the oldest known ...

Turkish Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Nihat Ergun attended the reception Thursday held to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Piri Reis map compiled in the year 1513. "Piri Reis served ...

In 1929, a map was found rolled up on a dusty shelf in a library at the Topkapi Palace in Constantinople (present day Istanbul), Turkey. It dates back to 1513. This map, which is now well-known as the ...

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