Historic map of city of Nicosia (Cyprus), created in 1597. Author is a Venetian Giacomo Franco (1550-1620) cartographer, engraver and publisher in Venice. This map is taken from his book Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per mare with additional comments by Giuseppe Rosaccio (1530. – 1603./1620.).
Cyprus is a Eurasian country and third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. This popular tourist destination is located west of Syria and Lebanon and south of Turkey. Capital and largest city is Nicosia. This map displays turist informations like a camp sites, museums, sandy beaches, castles, forts and more.
Here is a map of Cyprus by Ottoman Empire’s Kaptan Pasha, Piri Reis. Piri Reis was an Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer, cartographer and privateer born between 1465 and 1470 in Gallipoli on the Aegean coast of Turkey. This map is taken from Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation).
