Historic map of Aegean Sea by Piri Reis

The survey was run and coordinated from the Institute of Marine Sciences research ship, the R / V Koca Piri Reis.

Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit ( Ottoman Turkish: كريت, as recorded by Piri Reis ).

Historic map of Dardanelles by Piri Reis

16th-century map of Chios by Piri Reis

* Piri Reis ( 1465c. 1554 ), whose Piri Reis map is the oldest surviving world map to include the Americas and possibly Antarctica

Piri Reis ' map is centered on the Sahara at the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer.

In 1528 Piri Reis drew a second world map, of which a small fragment ( showing Greenland and North America from Labrador and Newfoundland in the north to Florida, Cuba and parts of Central America in the south ) still survives.

Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map | first World Map of Piri Reis ( 1513 )

For many years, little was known about the identity of Piri Reis.

He was the son of Hadji Mehmed Piri, and began engaging in government-supported privateering ( a common practice in the Mediterranean Sea among both the Muslim and Christian states of the 15th and 16th centuries ) when he was young, in 1481, following his uncle Kemal Reis, a well-known corsair and seafarer of the time, who later became a famous admiral of the Ottoman Navy.

When his uncle Kemal Reis died in 1511 ( his ship was wrecked by a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, while he was heading to Egypt ), Piri returned to Gelibolu, where he started working on his studies about navigation.

Surviving fragment of the second World Map of Piri Reis ( 1528 )

In 1547, Piri had risen to the rank of Reis ( admiral ) as the Commander of the Ottoman Fleet in the Indian Ocean and Admiral of the Fleet in Egypt, headquartered in Suez.

Turning further east, Piri Reis captured the island of Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.

Today, based on the Ottoman archives, we know that his full name was " Hadji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri " and that he was born either in Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ) on the European part of the Ottoman Empire ( in present-day Turkish Thrace ), or in Karaman ( his father's birthplace ) in central Anatolia, then the capital of the Beylik of Karaman ( annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1487 ).

His name, roughly translated, means Captain Piri.

* A spelling of Piri Reis's birth name ( ca.

Having succeeded in the conquest, the new king moved northward and after having founded settlements in a variety of places, eventually built his capital in Buali in the province of Piri ( from which the ethnic name " Muvili " eventually derived ).

The name " Piri Wiri Tua " was sometimes used by the religion's founder, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, and means The Campaigner.

Piri piri is the spelling of the name as used in the Portuguese language, namely in the Portuguese speaking Mozambican community.

The honorary and informal Islamic title Hadji ( Turkish: Hacı ) in Piri's ( Hadji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri ) and his father's ( Hadji Mehmed Piri ) names indicate that they had completed the Hajj ( Islamic pilgrimage ) by going to Mecca during the dedicated period of Hadjj and fulfilling the required rituals.

Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio ( aka Spanish Harlem ), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population.

* Hapgood, Charles Hutchins ; Piri Reis map of 1513 ( 1962 )

On the Piri Reis, Oronteus, and Philippe Buache maps ; comparison to other 16th c. maps of America and Asia, debunking the Antarctica claims.

When he refused to support the Ottoman Vali ( Governor ) of Basra, Kubad Pasha, in another campaign against the Portuguese in the northern Persian Gulf, Piri Reis was publicly beheaded in 1554 or 1555.

* Piri Reis map: several ancient astronauts authors, and others such as Gavin Menzies and Charles Hapgood, suggested that this map, made by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis from a diverse range of sources centuries before Antarctica was discovered, features that continent and even has many points of continuity with modern maps of Antarctica below its ice sheets.

In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings he supported the suggestion made by Arlington Mallery that a part of the Piri Reis Map was a depiction of the area of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

He concludes that " Antarctica was mapped when these parts were free of ice ", taking that view that an Antarctic warm period coincided with the last ice age in the Northern hemisphere, and that the Piri Reis and other maps were based on " ancient " maps derived from ice-age originals.

At Hapgood's request, they had studied both Piri Reis and Oronce Finé maps during their off-duty hours, concluding that both were compiled from original source maps of Antarctica at a time when it was relatively free of ice, supporting Hapgood's findings.

However there was to be some confiscation of land and this was resisted by one small hapu or sub-tribe, the Piri Rakau led by a Hau Hau prophet, Hakaraia.

) He was the third commander to take this post after Hadım Süleyman Pasha and Piri Reis.

Piri Thomas ( September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011 ) was a writer and poet whose memoir Down These Mean Streets became a best-seller.

He was the subject of the film Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas, by Jonathan Robinson, which featured a soundtrack by Kip Hanrahan.

The map was signed by Piri Reis, an Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer, and dated to the month of Muharram in the Islamic year 919 AH, equivalent to 1513 AD.

Several warships and submarines of the Turkish Navy have been named after Piri Reis.

In 1513, the Ottoman Turkish admiral Piri Reis drew a world map that has been said to show part of the Antarctic continent.

* Piri Reis ( ca. 1465-1555 ), a Turkish cartographer and geographer

Istanbul's Formula One racetrack, Turkish Naval Academy, Koç School, Piri Reis University, Sabancı University and ITU School of Maritime are located in Tuzla.

The Piri Reis map is a pre-modern world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.

( Festschrift, p. 4 ) Professor Halman's father Sait also published many translations and wrote many books on naval and military history including a monograph on the Piri Reis map, the oldest extant map showing the New World.