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Bust of Piri Reis in Gallipoli. Muhiddin Piri (c. 1470 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis, was an Ottoman cartographer, admiral, navigator, corsair, and geographer.He is primarily known today for his cartographic works, including his 1513 world map and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of the Sea), a book with detailed information on early navigational techniques as well as relatively accurate ...
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 in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt , Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I ( r.
The Ottomans attempted to intervene against the Portuguese presence, and four Ottoman ships bombarded the city in 1546. [4] The city was again attacked by the Ottomans in 1552 as part of a broader conflict over the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. This time they attacked with a larger fleet under Piri Reis and Seydi Ali Reis. [4]
1546 - City bombarded by Ottoman ships without landing. [1] 1552 - Capture of Muscat (1552) by Ottoman forces under Piri Reis for a brief period. [2] 1581 - City pillaged by Ottomans under command of Piri Reis before withdrawing. [2] 1586-1588 - Fort al-Jalali and Fort al-Mirani completed. [2] [3] 1624 - Construction begins of "earthen land ...
Piri Reis rejoined the Ottoman Navy for the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and presented the world map to Selim I in 1517. [7] [8] In the following decade, Piri Reis completed two versions of the Kitab-ı Bahriye and a second world map. [6] When Suleiman the Magnificent began his reign in 1520, Ottoman craftsmen offered exemplars of their ...
The Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (Portuguese: Guerra Turco-Portuguesa, Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu-Portekiz İmparatorluğu çekişmesi, 1538–60) were a period of conflict during the Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations and series of armed military encounters between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire along with regional allies in and along the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and ...
Fragment of the Piri Reis map by Piri Reis in 1513. 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 part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable.
Since the Siege of Diu in 1538, the Ottoman Empire was attempting to counter Portuguese influence in the Indian Ocean. In 1552, Ottoman admiral Piri Reis led a number of expeditions around the Arabian peninsula against the Portuguese with limited success.