File:Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte.jpg

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Map of Constantinople (modern Istanbul), 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.

Date

1422

Source

Liber insularum Archipelagi (1824), version available at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Author

Cristoforo Buondelmonti

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