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Piri Reis

c. 1465–1553 · 16th century

Piri Reis was an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, best known for his world map of 1513, which preserves part of an early map of the Americas, and for his book of navigation, the Kitab-ı Bahriye. As admiral of the Indian Ocean fleet he took Muscat from the Portuguese in 1552 but failed to capture Hormuz, and on his return he was executed in Egypt in 1553.

Piri Reis
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