Bøger af Ramiz Daniz

Admiral Piri Reis made an atlas in 1528 and included this map in that atlas by fixing the date as 1513. Afterwards it turned out that, mentioned historical material was copied from ancient manu-scripts kept in the library of Constantinople.According to historical sources, Piri Reis often visited that library in order to analyze ancient documents and maps. Mentioned map could attract attention of Turkish scientists for its exactness. It was almost the first map, which described outlines of America. Besides it, the sensational material included outlines of North America and Antarctica. It was made 21 years after the first travel of Columbus. But the Genoese admiral hadn¿t visited the continent besides eastern coasts of Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras. Antarctica was discovered after more than 300 years by Fadday Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev (1820).The American secretary of state Henry Stimson also was interested in this investigation. He thought that, ¿Columbus¿s map¿ could be in Turkey. He ordered the ambassador of USA in Turkey to start researches in order to find mentioned map.

The expedition had to be started in 1493. Probably, preparation works were realized out of the Pyrenean peninsula and in Madeira Islands. As hot days had passed and stormy weathers were characteristic for autumn of those latitudes, this work had to be carried out on the north-western coast of Africa. They had to use other islands in order to prevent risks. From this standpoint, the most convenient geographical location was the location of Green Cape Islands and remote western point of Africa located near the Gulf of Guinea. Portugal, which didn¿t want to declare its regard for the mentioned division, began to declare dissatisfaction after a year and demanded the Pope to move the demarcation line for 270 liq towards the west. Representatives of both kingdoms met with the participation of Alexander VI in Tordesillas in 1494 and the demarcation line was moved for 370 liq away from Azores (for 2200 km towards the west from those islands) according to the next treaty concluded on June 7. According to the treaty of Tordesillas, all territories located in the east of the demarcation line belonged to Portugal, but lands located in the west belonged to Spain.

Some scientists wondered for many years: Was it just to name the forth continent ¿Americä? This research proved that, huge territory, discovered by Christopher Columbus, was named wrongly. Because, Amerigo Vespucci deceived people around him, especially scientists. He used letters, written by Columbus, Diego Chanca and Pero Vaz de Caminha in the New World, when wrote his well-known letters, it turned out that, two of his four travels were false, he approached Colum-bus, learned his secrets and disgraced the admiral owing to those secrets, offered to name the forth continent ¿Americä when he was head navigator of Castile, passed maps, which were considered state secret, to the cartographers. It isn¿t just to name the continent in honor of such swindler.