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Marseilles in France on the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation) of Piri Reis
This map is not that accurate and has serious deviations from the real world:
- On the left the mouth of the Rhone (it might have changed quite a lot since then) and the surrounding towns.
- Then in somewhat false orientation the chained harbour of Marsailles (truely the harbour opens in western direction),
- The cliff cape south of Marsailles is close to reality even if not perfectly correct.
Attention: from now on several coast areas were not documented, most missing in modern terms of view is the famous natural Bay of Ciotat, but a few not that small islands are missing as well, further Cassis, La Ciotat, Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer and Bandol might be missing as well.
- Then the drawn harbour and town that opens to west might be some village in the area of Sanary-sur-Mer/Six-Fours-les-Plages.
- The harbour of Toulon is relatively well depicted including that protective peninsula Le Mourillon and the smaller bay on the peninsula of Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer with the exception that it all opens to the east.
- The cape of Giens in combination with the island of Porquerolles is again relatively well recognizeable including some minor mis-placed and mis-oriented island that a sailing boat would normally pass in close distance.
- Finally in the east the town of L'Ayguade and the former saline area of Les Salins d'Hyeres could be identified.
All above is stated under the aspect of not beeing a translation from the original card material inscriptions but from comparison with reference maps and knowledge of the true location.
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