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Summary
DescriptionPiri Reis Map Translated.svg
English: This map includes translations of the major inscriptions of the Piri Reis map from Ottoman Turkish and Arabic into English. It also includes (in green text) translations, transliterations, and identifications of many places on the map.
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The translations are generously made available by Türk Tarih Kurumu (TTK),[1] please maintain attribution.
Regarding public domain status of the translation source in Turkey: the work was published in 1935, Akçura died in 1935†, the assistant who he says helped transcribe the text, Hasan Fehmi Turgal, died in 1939.‡
† Akçura, Yusuf, Piri Reis Haritasi (1935), p. 34, note 2, by the book's editor.
Note: McIntosh (2000) is credited on the map for the identifications of placenames; no text was copied from McIntosh. Placenames on a map are not covered by US copyright.[2]