Map of the Turkish Empire, AD 1606
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Turcici Imperii Imago, Amsterdam 1606, Jodocus Hondius (1563 – 1612) Map of the Turkish Empire, showing the Turkish territories in the Balkans, Anatolia, Levant, Arabia and North Africa, published by Hondius in "Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati figura" (Atlas of the world: finely engraved and drawn) in 1606. The map has a decorative cartouche with the portrait of Sultan Mehmet Khan II the Conqueror which refers to him as "Sultan Mahomet Turcorum Imperat 2."