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    navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean...
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    A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a fictional biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in...
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    Christopher Columbus (/kəˈlʌmbəs/; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa...
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    Christopher Columbus received finances and was authorised to sail west and claim lands for Spain. The monarchs accorded him the title of Admiral of the...
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  • in 1566 with the Spanish West Indies fleets, following the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken...
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    UPR. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-8477-0244-2. Christopher Columbus (5 February 2004). The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Penguin Books Limited. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-14-192042-9...
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    Fuson's The Log of Christopher Columbus. The story of Christopher Columbus's origins and young life preceding his sea-faring voyages is still largely...
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    the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, whom his father never married. Ferdinand Columbus was born in Córdoba...
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    The ethnic or national origin of explorer Christopher Columbus (1450 or 1451 – 1506) has been a source of speculation since the 19th century. The consensus...
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    colonizing areas of North America. In 1492, the exploratory voyages of Christopher Columbus led to a transatlantic exchange, including migrations of European...
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    influence, but the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other European voyages of discovery in the Americas, beginning the European colonization of the Americas...
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    area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Eriksson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus...
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    America nearly a century before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Nicolò and Antonio are notable for a number of letters and a map (the so-called "Zeno...
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  • 2024 in Trinidad and Tobago (category Years of the 21st century in Trinidad and Tobago)
    of the country's coat of arms to remove images referencing the voyages of Christopher Columbus in favor of a steelpan, a native invention, as part of...
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  • Guacanagaríx (category History of the Colony of Santo Domingo)
    contemporaneous with the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus. He was the chief of the cacicazgo of Marién, which occupied the northwest of the island. Guacanagarix...
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    Chimor, Moche, Muisca, Chavin, Paracas, and Nazca. After the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Spanish and later Portuguese, English, French and...
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    never became permanent and was later abandoned. The Spanish voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492 to 1504 resulted in permanent contact with European...
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  • voyage was spent scanning the Central American coast. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened the New World. Genoese navigator and explorer Giovanni...
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    Triangular trade (category History of the Atlantic Ocean)
    northeasterly direction using the westerlies. (Even before the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Portuguese had been using a similar triangle to sail to...
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  • Il Colombo ovvera L'India scoperta 1828 – A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, a biographical fiction written by Washington Irving...
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    alternatives, resulting in the voyages of Christopher Columbus and his accidental arrival at the New World. With the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494...
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    Kitab-ı Bahriye (category Geographical works of the medieval Islamic world)
    Portuguese and Spanish voyages including the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas and Vasco da Gama's discovery of a sea route to India. It...
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    A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains; and Life of George Washington...
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    New World (category Age of Discovery)
    discussing historic spaces, particularly the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the subsequent European colonization of the Americas. It has been framed as being...
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    that they would mark 1992, the 500th anniversary of the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus, as a year to promote "continental unity" and "liberation"...
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  • Dominic Columbus; Genoese: Domenego Corombo; 1 March 1418 – 1496) was a weaver, the father of Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus and Bartholomew...
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  • President Joe Biden proclaimed on Columbus Day 2022 that the voyages of Christopher Columbus served as “a source of pride for many Italian Americans whose...
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  • Adrián de Moxica (category Spanish people of Basque descent)
    Irving, Washington (1828). A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. London: John Murray. Adrian de Moxica in 1492: Conquest of Paradise...
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    History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, was published and mistaken by many for a scholarly work. In Book II, Chapter IV of this biography...
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    ChatGPT (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024)
    hypothetical consideration of what might happen if Columbus came to the U.S. in 2015, using information about the voyages of Christopher Columbus and facts about...
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