Cedid Atlas

Title Page of the Cedid Atlas (also known as Cedid Atlas Tercümesi)

Cedid Atlas (Ottoman Turkish: جديد اطلس, romanizedAtlas-ı Cedid, lit.'New Atlas') was the first modern atlas produced in the Muslim world, printed and published in 1803 in Constantinople. The atlas was created by translating and adapting maps from William Faden's General Atlas and the full title of the atlas reads as Cedid Atlas Tercümesi (meaning, literally, "A Translation of a New Atlas") and in most libraries outside Turkey, it is recorded and referenced accordingly.

Although manuscripts and hand-drawn maps were widely available, the Cedid Atlas could only be published in 1803 by Müderris Abdurrahman Efendi in a style based on European sources.


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