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DescriptionMap of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte.jpg
Map of Constantinople (a small part of modern Istanbul), called "Historic Peninsula", Tarihi Yarımada en Turkish) designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti (Description des îles de l'archipel, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving map which predates the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
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Liber insularum Archipelagi (1824), version available at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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