Piri Reis has kept busy of late, compiling the Kitāb-ı Baḥrīye, a large book of maps utilizing both new discoveries made by the Europeans across the Western Sea, and old Persian, Indian and Chinese lore about the Eastern oceans. The great book also includes notes on navigation, astronomy, different kinds of storms, and the customs of local people.
Definitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_TUR.txt:4936
4937type = country_event
4938title = flavor_tur.73.titleMapping the World
4939desc = flavor_tur.73.descPiri Reis has kept busy of late, compiling the Kitāb-ı Baḥrīye, a large book of maps utilizing both new discoveries made by the Europeans across the Western Sea, and old Persian, Indian and Chinese lore about the Eastern oceans. The great book also includes notes on navigation, astronomy, different kinds of storms, and the customs of local people.
4940outcome = neutral
4942historical_info = flavor_tur.73.historical_infoDespite never sailing on the Atlantic himself, Piri Reis was a prolific cartographer who made many maps, combining the new discoveries made by Portugal and Spain with older knowledge available in Arabic sources. A fragment of one of his maps found in the Topkapi palace in 1929 is the oldest Islamic map to depict the New World.