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    Amerigo Vespucci (/vɛˈspuːtʃi/ vesp-OO-chee, Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from...
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    The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy...
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    Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her...
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    FLR, ICAO: LIRQ), in Italian Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola, formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the...
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    South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following...
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    late 1499 of part of the expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, in which Amerigo Vespucci took part. Also, to the expedition led by Spanish navigator and explorer...
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    16th century during Europe's Age of Discovery, after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci published the Latin-language pamphlet Mundus Novus, presenting his...
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  • Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512) was an Italian explorer and cartographer. Amerigo Vespucci may also refer to: CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci, a container ship...
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    Amerigo Vespucci was a screw corvette of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The design for Amerigo Vespucci...
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    Ponte Amerigo Vespucci is a bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy and named after Florence-born explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It joins the Lungarno...
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    Amerigo Vespucci's Letter from Seville (18 July 1500), written to his patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, describes experiences on Alonso de Ojeda's...
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  • Colegio Amerigo Vespucci is an Italian private school in Caracas, Venezuela. The college is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, navigator...
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    CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It has a capacity of...
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    is sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci, though in fact it is known that Vespucci was born (on 9 March 1454) in Florence, in the...
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    Rome. Meloni graduated from Istituto tecnico professionale di Stato Amerigo Vespucci in 1996. After her election to the Italian Parliament in 2006, she...
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  • Look up Vespucci in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vespucci may refer to: Agostino Vespucci of Florence Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, assistant...
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    America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, coming from the Old High German name Emmerich, in a world map they...
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    Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map also first showed the Pacific Ocean, separating the Americas...
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    and also accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci. The 1501 mapping expedition is also known as the "Third Voyage" of Amerigo Vespucci (and his first under the...
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    explains their name as a joke: "Amerigo Vespucci is the guy who discovered America so it stands to reason that Antarctigo Vespucci would be the guy who discovered...
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    Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major. New York: Octagon Books. pp. 54–55. [1] Archived 2021-11-08 at the Wayback Machine Arciniegas, German (1978) Amerigo and...
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    companies. The transit companies also accommodate travellers from the Amerigo Vespucci Airport, which is 5 km (3 mi) west of the city centre, and which has...
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    1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, coming from the Old High German name Emmerich. Ringmann was born in...
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    having derived its name from Mexica, the Nahuatl term for the Aztecs. Amerigo Vespucci, along with other explorers, is credited with the discovery of the...
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    accepted that the name "America" derives from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The term dates back to 1507, when it appeared on a world map created...
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  • The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first International Festival of Geography [fr] (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges...
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  • Agostino Vespucci was a Florentine chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. He is most well known for helping to...
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    Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia, at times with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which...
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    painter, Sandro Botticelli, as well as Age of Discovery-era explorer Amerigo Vespucci, from whom the name "America" is derived. It was completed originally...
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    Noronhomys (redirect from Vespucci's rodent)
    as Vespucci's rodent, is an extinct rat species from the islands of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil. Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci may...
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