15 Ocak 2011 Cumartesi

Historical Maps of Istanbul..


While i was surfing on the internet in order to find a map of İstanbul, i saw so many historical maps of this city and i decided to share them with you ,dear reader.. In addition, i saw some of blogs about map collection. I will give you these blog’s links but first of all, i want to share some of the historical maps..


Our first map is belong to Piri Reis, 




And these maps are taken from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University library. I was found these maps in the internet site of this university. Here the maps;



Also, i found a blog which name is "David Rumsey Historical Map Collection". 
This blog is very intresting,indeed. It has lots of maps about almost every historical places from Europe to Asia. When i was searching Constantinople maps in this blog, i saw other places maps and i really enjoyed to look at them. This is the link of this blog; http://www.davidrumsey.com/. And here is the some maps;

On this map, you will notice a thing if you carefully look at Bosphorus. It was written "Channel of Costaniople" in 19th  century.




Lastly i found two more map on the internet site of University of Texas Lİbraries. They are also very interesting..






This is the link of a site about historical  places’ map, you will find old Istanbul maps, here is the link; http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/turkey/istanbul/istanbul.html


Warm regards..

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