Аннотация: with America clearly marked as their administrative province, "Vilayet Antilia"...
The response to this initiative came, however, from the Ottoman State, which first incorporated the Mamluk territories in the Middle East within its empire, then challenged the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean and the Spanish in the Mediterranean. The Ottomans, at the peak of their power in the sixteenth century, possessed the required naval strength and the types of ships needed for journeys of exploration. Having prepared the map of the New World, based on a map of Columbus, with America clearly marked as their administrative province, "Vilayet Antilia," they were set to pursue their enemies across the Atlantic, сообщают нам о турецких планах завоевания Америки. Откуда следует: