Archivo: Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte

Description: 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.
Title: Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte
Credit: Liber insularum Archipelagi (1824), version available at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Author: Cristoforo Buondelmonti
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