Alexandria the Great

This episode covers the city of Alexandria’s contributions to the Ottoman Empire's economic and trading success through the eyes of the esteemed cartographer Piri Reis. Through exploring Piri’s drawings and vivid descriptions of Alexandria, we explore the ways in which he depicts the city as the trading superpower in the Mediterranean and the Old World.

Researchers and Hosts
Sophia Fawcett, Jacob Chi, Henry Reuland, Lizzy Langhoff, Austin Hartsell, and Milap Patel 

Image

“City of Alexandria”, The Book of Navigation, The Walters Art Museum, ms W658. f. 302a

Music Credit

Eren Ergen, "Müsemmen (8/8)"

Bibliography

Agoston, Gabor, “The Ottoman Empire and Europe,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume II: Cultures and Power. Ed. Hamish Scott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, (612-637).

Antrim, Zayde, “Mapping in the Ottoman Empire”, London: Reaktion Books, 2018.

Dávid, Géza. “Ottoman Armies and Warfare, 1453–1603.” in The Cambridge History of Turkey. Ed. Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. (276–319). 

Rapaport, Youssef, “The Expanding Horizons of an Ottoman Admiral.” Oxford, England: Bodleian Library, 2020.