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العربية: خريطة للقاهرة رسمها الملاح العثماني بيري ريس، وهي جزء من كتاب بحرية الذي قدمه بيري ريس للسلطان العثماني سليمان القانوني حوالي العام 1525م.
English: A map of Cairo drawn by Ottoman navigator Piri Reis. It is a part of the Kitab-ı Bahriye that Piri Reis presented to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent around 1525 AD.
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Source L'Histoire de la Méditerranée; Le monde (La vie), Hors-série, July 2019, P.89.
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
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Hac Ahmed Muhiddin Piri
Description Ottoman geographer, cartographer, military officer and admiral
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 1554 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gelibolu Edit this at Wikidata Cairo Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q217915

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