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Who Was Christopher Columbus?

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator.

In , he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to Asia.

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Instead, he and his crew landed on an island in present-day Bahamas—claiming it for Spain and mistakenly “discovering” the Americas. Between and , he made three more voyages to the Caribbean and South America, believing until his death that he had found a shorter route to Asia.

Columbus has been credited—and blamed—for opening up the Americas to European colonization.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Cristoforo Colombo
BORN: c.
DIED: May 20,
BIRTHPLACE: Genoa, Italy
SPOUSE: Filipa Perestrelo (c.

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CHILDREN: Diego and Fernando

Where Was Columbus Born?

Christopher Columbus, whose real name was Cristoforo Colombo, was born in in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now Italy. He is believed to have been the son