Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
European maps of Asia become much more detailed from the 15th century, the 1459 Fra Mauro map showing a reasonable complete picture, including correctly placed Korea and Japan. Modern maps. Modern map making techniques in Asia, like other parts of the world, employ digitization, photographic surveys and printing.
The coast of Turkey, original Asian shore seen from a beach on Rhodes. The three-continent system was an idea devised in Archaic Greece, a time of Greek colonial expansion and trade throughout the Mediterranean and the spread of writing again. Writing is a prerequisite of written geography.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The ...
Category. : Maps of Asia. Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Asia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Asia.
Maps showing areas beyond China survive from the Song dynasty (960-1279). A map carved in stone in AD 1137 shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam. On the reverse, the Yu Ji Tu (see picture), a copy of a more ancient map, uses the grid system developed in China a millennium earlier.
Maps of India (7 P) Maps of Iran (3 C, 1 P) Maps of Israel (1 C, 4 P, 1 F)
C. Cartography of Asia. Cartography of Israel. Chaohu Plain. Chinese Tartary. List of outlines of countries in Asia.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file