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Piri Reis

1470 - 1554

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Muhiddin Piri (c. 1470 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis), was an Ottoman cartographer, admiral, navigator, corsair, and geographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piri Reis has received more than 980,182 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Piri Reis is the 6th most popular geographer, the 82nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 89th 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

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Piri Reis ranks 6 out of 86. Before him are Eratosthenes, Strabo, Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, and Muhammad al-Idrisi. After him are Pausanias, Carl Ritter, Abraham Ortelius, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Martin Waldseemüller, and Wladimir Köppen.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Piri Reis ranks 82 out of 1,347. Before him are Honorius (384), Alexios I Komnenos (1048), Constantine VII (905), Ertuğrul (1198), Theodosius II (401), and Abdulmejid II (1868). After him are Abdülaziz (1830), Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Mithridates VI of Pontus (-132), Saint Pantaleon (275), Anacreon (-570), and Pausanias (110).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Türkiye

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

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