Tuesday, January 28, 2014

TASTE OF THE PAST > Mapping the Ottomans - Hurriyet Daily News




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TASTE OF THE PAST > Mapping the Ottomans - Hurriyet Daily News




Hurriyet Daily News

TASTE OF THE PAST > Mapping the Ottomans
Hurriyet Daily News
Istanbul even had a group of cartographers working on producing maps for sailors in the seventeenth century, according to travel writer Evliya Çelebi. These maps, some of which relied on western maps, however are apparently lost. Later maps of Istanbul








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