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Maps and Engravings

Tenedos Local History Research Center contains 60 maps, engravings, and views of  Tenedos and surroundings, starting from 1500s and made in various printing  techniques. I have purchased the very first piece of this collection in June  of 1998 which is a black and white stone print BUSSIERRE dated 1829. After  searching special shops in Istanbul that sell maps and engravings, museums  that has map collections, libraries, private collections, books and catalogs about maps and topography, and also attending auctions and symposiums, I  have established a list of all Tenedos maps and purchased everything I found. As was the case with all my other collections, the internet has played an important role in establishing fast communications with foreign individuals, organizations, auction houses, museums and libraries. Items that I still did not obtain are listed at the end of these pages, within wanted section. The collection includes maps made by visiting travelers, who has included detailed notes  about Tenedos in their published atlases. Engravings include some that has depicted the fort and the city both in birdview and panaromic view. Some engravings are colored in later years such as MELLING and BUSSIERE, as well as TOURNEFORT whose work was actually combined from four different atlases. The collection is interesting in the way that it points out how a mistake made in an earlier map has been copied and carried on by other map makers in later years. There are several further drawings that I am yet to identify the makers. This is a collection of single sheet maps some of which were originally part of an atlas, although I am aware that a collection of full atlases would be much more meaningful.
 

MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS OF TENEDOS:

ROSACCIO, Giuseppe (1598) - LEVANTO, Francesco Maria (1664) - MALLET, Alain Manesson (1686) - NAPOLITANO, Francesco Piacenza (1688) - PEETERS, Jacques (1690) - CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1707) - LASOR, A. Verea (1713) - DAPPER, Olfret (1714) - TOURNEFORT, Pitton de (1717) - MYLLER, Angelicus Maria (1735) - PETROV, Ivan (1886) .

VIEWS OF TENEDOS FORT AND THE CITY :

RANDOLPH, Bernard (1687) - DAPPER, Olfret (1688)- TOURNEFORT, Pitton de (1717) - HILAIR, Jean Baptiste (1782) - MELLING, Antoine Ignace (1819) - BUSSIERRE, Baron Renouard de (1829) - REY, Etienne (1867) - The Illustrated London News (1853, 1863, 1878) .

MAPS OF DARDANELLES STRAIT AND TROAS :

BOCAGE, Barbie Du (1788) - Choiseul-Gouffier (1842) - TARDIEU, P.F. and A. (?) - REY, Etienne (1867) - Admiralty (1890)

 OTTOMAN PERIOD MAPS OF TENEDOS AND SURROUNDINGS: 

Northeast of Aegean Archipelago (?) - Edremit - Kale-i sultaniye (1913),  Bahr-i sefid strait (?)

 TENEDOS MAPS OF PIRI REIS:

Tenedos maps from the Kitab-ı Bahriye (the Book of Sea Lore) of Piri Reis (b. 1470(?) Gallipoli – d.1554 Cairo) who is considered the founder of Turkish cartography. Different copies made from the 1521 first edition and 1526 second edition are currently located in various libraries and private collections both in Turkey and abroad. A list of them has been published by Ms. Mine Esiner ÖZEN in Antik & Decor magazine (January 1999, No 50). Ret. Maj. Gen. Cevat ÜLKEKUL has provided 16 Tenedos maps in photocopies and digital media from his private collection.

TURKISH REPUBLIC PERIOD MAPS OF TENEDOS: 

After the republic the map preparation and printing has been continued under General Directorate of Cartography, and later Turkish Navy Department of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography. Among the selected three maps of this period, in the first one dated 1931, surprisingly the name of the island appears as BOHÇAADA. Second map dated 1949 depicts the town plan of Alaybey area (Greek town), the freedom monument, the creek bed that separates the Greek and Turkish areas and seven bridges over it, and thus should be considered an important document of that time.

Bohcaadasi (1931) - Bozcaada (1946) - Bozcaada (2000)
 

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