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  2. Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

  3. Fourth voyage of Columbus - Wikipedia

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    The fourth voyage of Columbus was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1502–1504 to the western Caribbean Sea led by Christopher Columbus.The voyage, Columbus's last, failed to find a western maritime route to the Far East, returned relatively little profit, and resulted in the loss of many crew men, all the fleet's ships, and a year-long marooning in Jamaica.

  4. Cristóbal, Colón - Wikipedia

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    Cristóbal was of vital importance to the American plan to build the Panama Canal. Much like the city of Colón (formerly Aspinwall) had been during the American construction of the Panama Railroad, Cristobal was the port of entry for construction equipment and materials, most canal workers, and supplies and provisions for them and their dependents.

  5. Christopher Columbus Copy Book - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Caribbean Sea with possible itineraries of Columbus' voyages.. The Columbus Copy Book consists of 38 folios, measuring 230 x 330 mm and written on both sides. [8] It contains the transcriptions of nine documents apparently written by Christopher Columbus between 1493 and 1503 and all addressed to the King and Queen of Spain: one 'letter-relation' about Columbus' First Voyage to the ...

  6. Origin theories of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Hernando Alonso de Herrera, in his anti-Aristotelian dissertation, completed in Salamanca in 1516, and published in Latin and Spanish, wrote: "Xristoval Colon ginoves." In a Portuguese map of 1520, [nb 11] it is said: "Land of the Antipodes of the King of Castile, discovered by Christopher Columbus Genoese."

  7. Alcázar de Colón - Wikipedia

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    The building now houses the Museo Alcázar de Diego Colón, which exhibits the Caribbean's most important collection of European late medieval and Renaissance art, acquired in the 1950s. The palace is an impressive structure built from coralline blocks [ 6 ] that once housed some fifty rooms, along with gardens and courtyards.

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  9. Cristobal Colon - Wikipedia

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    Cristobal Colon may refer to: The Spanish name of the explorer known in English as Christopher Columbus Spanish cruiser Cristóbal Colón (1887) , an unprotected Spanish cruiser that foundered off Cuba in 1895