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30 Awesome And Interesting Facts about Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, Columbus, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish settlements on the islands of Hispaniola, initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World. Take…