Svat Soucek

Dr. Svatopluk Soucek has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, and is currently the bibliographer for Persian and Turkish areas in the Asian and Middle East Division, The New York Public Library. His field of research covers the history of the Middle East, with focus on naval history and the history of Central Asia. He is the author of the books “Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking after Columbus” (London, 1996), “A History of Inner Asia” (Cambridge, 2000), and of numerous articles in scholarly periodicals and encyclopedias.

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