Istanbul

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, CXXX
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 940-941
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-51
  
  
• 1572, Camocio, Isole famose, porti, fortezze...
  
  
• 1573, Simon Pinargenti, Isole che son da Venetia nella...
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere du voyage...
  
  
• 1638, Daniel Meisner, Constantinopel
  
  
• before 1654, Jaspar Isac, La Ville de Constantinople
  
  
• 1686, J. D. Zunner, Der Grundriss von Constantinopel
  
  
• 1696, Nicolas De Fer, Veue de Constantinople
  
  
• 1698, Cornelis de Bruyn, Scutari Serraglio di Constantinopoli
  
  
• ~1730, Christoph Thomas Scheffler, Constantinopel
  
  
• ~1800, Plan De Constantinople et Du Bosphore
  
  
• 1807, F. Kauffer and I.B. Lechevalier, Plan de Constantinople

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• From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana:
  
  
  Costantinopoli Sebenico, Rota Martino, 1572
  
  Costantinopoli Bertelli, Donato, 1574
  
  Costantinopoli Munster, Sebastian, 1575
  
  Costantinopoli Porcacchi Tommaso, 1576
  
  Costantinopoli Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1764
  
  
  
  
  

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  Facts in brief:

  Held by Persian Empire 512 BC; Roman Republic free city; seat of Constantine I's empire 330; declared a Christian city by Constantine; attacked by Persians, Arabs, Bulgars & Russians 6th-13th cen.; taken by Fourth Crusade army 1203; taken by Ottomans.
  
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