TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
3. INTRODUCTION 7
4. 1. Piri Reis and Süleyman the Magnificent 31
5. 2. Piri Reis and the Ottoman Discovery of the Great Discoveries 41
6. 3. Piri Reis and the Persian Gulf 57
7. 4. The Rise of the Barbarossas in North Africa 67
8. 5. Ottoman naval policy in the Indian Ocean 79
9. 6. The Portuguese and the Turks in the Persian Gulf 83
10. 7. Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete 113
11. 8. The Strait of Chios and the Kaptanpaşa's navy 147
12. 9. The Ottoman Merchant Marine 171
13. 10. Certain Types of Ships in Ottoman-Turkish Terminology 181
14. Mīnā 195
15. Milāha 213
16. Ottoman Cartography 225
17. A Czech nobleman's pilgrimage to the Holy Land: 1493 239
18. Harant's Putowanj and Ali's Halat al-Qahire: a Comparison 251