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The Spaniard Esteban de Garibay, humanist and historian, writes: [53] "A man of the Italian nation, named Christopher Columbus, native of Cugurco , or Nervi, village of Genoa." The Portuguese João Matalio Metelo Sequano in 1580, writes that Columbus was born in the city of Genoa. [nb 21]
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.
A number of places, mostly in the Western Hemisphere, have been named after the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, who was the first European to make the New World widely known to Europeans. Countries
Spanish scientists said they will reveal details of the nationality of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Countries ...
Two nations, Colombia and Venezuela, are named after the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the Italian city Venice respectively; the very concept of "Latin America" (coined in the 19th century to describe the territories of the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese were spoken) is indirectly named after the Italian region of Latium, in ...
They chose as their hero Cristoforo Colombo, the Italian explorer who, sailing for the Spanish crown, on Oct. 12, 1492, made landfall in what was then called the New World.
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At the time of Columbus's voyages, the Americas were inhabited by Indigenous Americans, and Columbus later participated in the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Columbus died in 1506, and the next year, the New World was named "America" after Amerigo Vespucci , who realized that it was a unique landmass.