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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Turkey
Detail from the Piri Reis Map located in the Topkai Palace Museum.
This card, sent from my friend Neslihan in Turkey. The map, from 1513, includes the costs of part of the American continents, which were supposedly based on Columbus's maps.
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