EXPLORERS from Türkiye

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Explorers of all time. This list of famous Turkish Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Evliya Çelebi (1611 - 1682)

With an HPI of 73.23, Evliya Çelebi is the most famous Turkish Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 56 different languages on wikipedia.

Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith. He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatnâme ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God".

2. Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179 - 1229)

With an HPI of 69.28, Yaqut al-Hamawi is the 2nd most famous Turkish Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 40 different languages.

Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries). He is known for his Mu'jam ul-Buldān, an influential work on geography containing valuable information pertaining to biography, history and literature as well as geography.

3. Scylax of Caryanda (-600 - -500)

With an HPI of 63.58, Scylax of Caryanda is the 3rd most famous Turkish Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Scylax of Caryanda (Greek: Σκύλαξ ὁ Καρυανδεύς) was a Greek explorer and writer of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE. His own writings are lost, though occasionally cited or quoted by later Greek and Roman authors. The periplus sometimes called the Periplus of Scylax is not, in fact, by him; that so-called Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax was written in about the early 330s BCE by an unknown author working in the ambit of the post-Platonic Academy and/or the Aristotelian Peripatos (Lyceum) at Athens.

4. Eudoxus of Cyzicus (-100 - -100)

With an HPI of 54.52, Eudoxus of Cyzicus is the 4th most famous Turkish Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Eudoxus of Cyzicus ( YOO-dək-səs; Greek: Εὔδοξος ὁ Κυζικηνός, romanized: Eúdoxos ho Kyzikēnós; fl. c. 130 BC) was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.