Mahmud Al-Kashgari map / 11th Century

Geography / World Map Mahmud Al-Kashgari's world map with the city of Balasagun in the center, one of the capitals of the Kara-Khanid Khanate. (Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. Al-Kashgari studied the Turkic languages of his time and in Baghdad he composed the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, the Diwan Lughat al-Turk (Arabic: "Compendium of the languages of the Turks"). His book also included the first known map of the areas inhabited by Turkic peoples. Istanbul, Millet Library. Manuscript, 11th century (picture was digitally restored). Istanbul, Millet-Bibliothek.

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