Description:
Map of the city of Constantinople showing important structures within the fortified city and the waterways surrounding it. Numerous ships with billowing sails depicted in the water around the city. In the bottom center, a depiction of an Ottoman ruler on horseback, surrounded by attendants, with six roundels on either side. Eleven of the twelve roundels are filled with the portrait of an Ottoman ruler, from the founder of the Ottoman Empire, Osman I, through Selim II, with the twelfth left blank.

Tags:
maps

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