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Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
Recent Spanish-led DNA analyses and a documentary have advanced the claim that Christopher Columbus was of origin from the Iberian Peninsula, proposing he concealed his identity to escape Inquisition-...
Christopher Columbus’s family background is documented most densely in and later contemporaneous testimony that identify him as born in Genoa circa 1451 to Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa, w...
's 1492 voyage did not "discover" an empty continent but did mark the beginning of sustained an contact with the Caribbean and ultimately the Americas; he landed in and , made four voyages for between...
The body of recent claims — ranging from circumstantial archival clues to a 2024 DNA study asserting — offers a plausible but still contested alternative to the long‑standing picture of Christopher Co...