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Piri Reis

1470 - 1554

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Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis; born Muhiddin Piri; c. 1470–1553) was an Ottoman Turkish cartographer, admiral, navigator, and corsair. He is best known for his 1513 world map and his nautical atlas, the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of the Sea). His maps combined classical sources, his own seafaring knowledge, and information from recent European discoveries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2024). Piri Reis is the 6th most popular geographer, the 120th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 87th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Geographer.

Piri Reis was a Turkish admiral and cartographer. Piri Reis is most famous for his world map, which was the oldest known world map to show the Americas.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Piri Reis ranks 6 out of 86. Before him are Eratosthenes, Strabo, Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, and Muhammad al-Idrisi. After him are Pausanias, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, Carl Ritter, David Harvey, and Ferdinand von Richthofen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Piri Reis ranks 4. Before him are Edward V of England, Selim I, and Charles VIII of France. After him are Martin Waldseemüller, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Catherine of Navarre, Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Francis, Count of Vendôme, Juan Díaz de Solís, and György Dózsa. Among people deceased in 1554, Piri Reis ranks 2. Before him is Lady Jane Grey. After him are Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Leo Africanus, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Sebastiano Serlio, João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Sibylle of Cleves, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Hieronymus Bock, and Pedro Cieza de León.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Piri Reis ranks 120 out of 1,347. Before him are Ulfilas (311), Al-Battani (858), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Irenaeus (130), Stefan Dušan (1308), and Romanos IV Diogenes (1030). After him are Photios I of Constantinople (900), Theodora (815), Pausanias (110), Zeno (425), Rachel (-3500), and Enver Pasha (1881).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Türkiye

Among geographers born in Türkiye, Piri Reis ranks 2. Before him are Strabo (-64). After him are Pausanias (110), and Artemidorus Ephesius (-150).

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