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Born in the Republic of Genoa, Columbus was a navigator who sailed in search of a westward route to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands thought to be the East Asian source of spices and other precious oriental goods obtainable only through arduous overland routes. [1] Columbus was partly inspired by 13th-century Italian explorer Marco ...
Interstate Highways of the Georgia State Route System ... in Columbus: I-85 near LaGrange: 1979 [10] current SR 411 I-285: 63.98: 102.97 Beltway around Atlanta 1963 ...
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who led four trans-Atlantic voyages—1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502—from Spain. [6] In his 1492 voyage, which was an attempt to find a direct ship route from Europe to Asia, Columbus stumbled across the Bahamas and became the first European explorer to find the Americas. [6]
Columbus is the second most populous city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. At the 2020 U.S. census , Columbus had a population of 206,922, [ 6 ] with 328,883 in the Columbus metropolitan statistical area . [ 3 ]
Interstate 185 (I-185) is a 49.3-mile-long (79.3 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in the west-central part of the US state of Georgia.I-185 also carries the unsigned State Route 411 (SR 411) and is named the Chet Atkins Parkway for its entire length.
Juan de la Cosa sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first three voyages to the New World. He owned and was master of the Santa María (second-in-command to Columbus), [8] flagship of Columbus's first voyage in 1492. The vessel shipwrecked that year on the night of 24–25 December off the present-day site of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. De la Cosa ...
San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
Route of Columbus's first voyage. Christopher Columbus, a Genoese captain in the service of the Crown of Castile, set out on his first voyage in August 1492 with the objective of reaching the East Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of reaching Asia, Columbus stumbled upon the Caribbean islands of the Americas.