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==Description==
The map is the extant western third of a world map drawn on [[gazelle]] skin, with dimensions reported as 90 cm x 63 cm,<ref>{{Harvnb|Nebenzahl|1990|p=63}}.</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Soucek|first=Svat|authorlink=Svat Soucek|contribution=Piri Re'is|title=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]|editor1-last=Bosworth|editor1-first=C. E.|editor2-last=van Donzel|editor2-first=E.|editor3-last=Heinrichs|editor3-first=W. P.|editor4-last=Lecomte|editor4-first=G.|year=1995|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|location=[[Leiden]]|volume=vol. 8|page=308|isbn=90-04-09834-8}}.</ref> 86 cm x 60 cm,<ref name="Kahle621">{{Harvnb|Kahle|1933|p=621}}.</ref> 90 cm x 65 cm,<ref>{{Harvnb|Mollat du Jourdin|La Roncière|le R. Dethan|1984|p=218}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Portinaro|Knirsch|1987|p=47}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Tekeli|1985|p=676}}.</ref> 85 cm x 60 cm,<ref>{{citation|last=Babinger|first=Franz|contribution=Piri Re'is|title=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]|editor1-last=Houtsma|editor1-first=M. Th.|year=1936|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|location=[[Leiden]]|volume=vol. 3|page=1070–1071|isbn=}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Deissmann|1933|p=111}}.</ref> 87 cm x 63 cm,<ref>{{Harvnb|Van de Waal|1969|p=82}}.</ref> and 86 cm x 62 cm.<ref>{{Harvnb|Smithsonian Institution|1966|p=104}}.</ref> The surviving portion primarily details the western coast of [[Africa]] and the eastern coast of [[South America]]. The map was signed by [[Piri Reis]], an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman-Turkish]] [[admiral]], [[Geography in medieval Islam|geographer]] and [[Cartography|cartographer]], and dated to the month of [[Muharram]] in the [[Islamic calendar|Islamic year]] 919 AH, equivalent to [[1513]]
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From eight Jaferyas of that kind and one Arabic map of Hint [India], and from four newly drawn Portuguese maps which show the countries of Sint [modern day [[Pakistan]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Hint and Çin [China] geometrically drawn, and also from a map drawn by Qulūnbū [Columbus] in the western region, I have extracted it. By reducing all these maps to one scale this final form was arrived at, so that this map of these lands is regarded by seamen as accurate and as reliable as the accuracy and reliability of the [[Seven Seas]]<ref>In this case, the Seven Seas are the [[China Seas|Chinese Sea]], the [[Indian Sea]], the [[Persian Gulf]], the [[Caspian Sea]], the Western Sea ([[Atlantic Ocean]]), the [[Red Sea]] and the East African Sea (sea surrounding the [[East Africa]]n island of [[Zanzibar]]), as identified by Piri in ''Kitab-ı Bahriye'' (1521). {{Harvnb|Kahle|1933|p=624}}.</ref> on the aforesaid maps."<ref>Translation from {{Harvnb|McIntosh|2000|pp=15, 17}}.</ref>
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