The Kitab-ı Bahriye (Ottoman Turkish: كتاب بحرية, lit. 'Book of the Sea') is a navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea in existence.
The Kitab-ı Bahriye (Ottoman Turkish: كتاب بحرية, lit. 'Book of the Sea') is a navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea in existence.
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