What is Piri Reis?
[[File:Piri reis world map 01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Surviving fragment of the first World Map of Piri Reis (1513)]] [[File:Piri Reis map interpretation RG.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Interpretation of a map by Piri Reis]] '''Piri Reis''' (full name '''Hadji Muhiddin Piri Ibn Hadji Mehmed''') (about [[1465]] – [[1554]] or [[1555]]) was an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman-Turkish]] [[admiral]] and [[Cartography|cartographer]] born between [[1465]] and [[1470]] in [[Gallipoli]] on the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] coast of [[Turkey]]. Today, people remember him because of the maps he made. He made the first Ottoman map to show parts of the Americas, the [[Piri Reis map]], in [[1513]]. He drew a second map in [[1528]]. Only a fragment of that map survives today. That fragment however, shows parts of North America, including [[Greenland]]. It goes from the coast of [[Labrador, Canada|Labrador]] and [[Newfoundland]] in the north, to [[Florida]],[[Cuba]] and parts of Central America in the south. Therefore, some people believe he drew a map of the [[Arctic]] about 200 years before it was discovered. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Reis, Piri}} [[Category:1460s births]] [[Category:1554 deaths]] [[Category:Admirals]] [[Category:Cartographers]] [[Category:Asian explorers]] [[Category:Turkish military people]]