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Piri Reis

1470 - 1554

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Ahmed Muhiddin Piri (c. 1465 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis or Hacı Ahmet Muhittin Pîrî Bey), was an Ottoman navigator, geographer and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piri Reis has received more than 899,674 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Piri Reis is the 6th most popular geographer, the 89th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 75th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Geographer.

Piri Reis was a Turkish admiral and cartographer. Piri Reis is most famous for his world map, which was the oldest known world map to show the Americas.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Piri Reis ranks 6 out of 67. Before him are Eratosthenes, Strabo, Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, and Muhammad al-Idrisi. After him are Pausanias, Carl Ritter, George Everest, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, and Ferdinand von Richthofen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Piri Reis ranks 4. Before him are Selim I, Edward V of England, and Charles VIII of France. After him are Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Martin Waldseemüller, Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Francis, Count of Vendôme, György Dózsa, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, and Juan Díaz de Solís. Among people deceased in 1554, Piri Reis ranks 1. After him are Lady Jane Grey, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Leo Africanus, Sebastiano Serlio, João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Hieronymus Bock, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Sibylle of Cleves, Pedro Cieza de León, and Gaspara Stampa.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Piri Reis ranks 89 out of 1,301. Before him are Theodosius II (401), Orhan Pamuk (1952), Abdülaziz (1830), Mustafa IV (1779), Valerian (200), and Manuel I Komnenos (1118). After him are Honorius (384), Pausanias (110), Ignatius of Antioch (35), Nestorius (381), Apollonius of Perga (-262), and Anna Komnene (1083).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Turkey

Among geographers born in Turkey, Piri Reis ranks 2. Before him are Strabo (-64). After him are Pausanias (110) and Artemidorus Ephesius (-150).

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