Columbus was Portuguese! 

This is absolutely fascinating to me and I'm so glad that the RU-vid gods put your video on my feed! I now live in Porto, Portugal (from the USA originally) and Iberian peninsula history is deeply important to me. Thanks for the inspiration!

Muito obrigado minha senhora . Em 2019 , o Prof. Manuel da Silva Rosa , após 30 anos de investigação demonstrou que Colombo era um espião português instalado na corte dos reis católicos . Esta epopeia fantástica foi pensada e organizada pelo "Génio" do rei português ... D, João II. O Prof. Manuel Rosa recebeu vários prémios , entre eles : Boston Globe Art Merit Award (1976) ; o Lockheed Martin Lightning Award ( 2002) ; o Special Recognition Award , etc .

this lady goes in the right direction, but has very imprecise knowledge of Colon's personal history

Salvador Goncalves Zarco nascido em CUBA-Portugal 🇵🇹👍🏽

If May add some info to your podcast, #1) Columbus has letters, notes written in Portuguese, Spanish (half Portuguese), Latin and Greek. There is nothing written in Italian #2) he didn’t just marry a Portuguese woman, but the daughter of the very famous explorer of the Madeira Islands #3) after “discovering” the new world he sailed straight to Portugal and remained in Portugal for many days before heading to Spain after briefing the Portuguese King

I also believe he was Portuguese there are so many possible links to Portugal it all makes sense.

Your clips are very interesting. thank you.💕

He was born in Cuba, not the one in America, the one in Portugal. He wasn't dumb, on the contrary, he learned with the best and is mission was to take away the attention of the kings of Castile from África. He knew that he wasn't going to reach India, when he left, he stopped in the Azores, which is Portugal and if he didn't had authorization from the Portuguese king, he would be killed. He gave the name Cuba, is birthplace to the biggest island he found and named with Portuguese names, more than 20 islands. Those names are villages around his native birthplace, Cuba. When he returned, he first went to talk to the Portuguese king and then he went to speak with the Castile kings who paid the voyages. He was a spy working for the Portuguese king and his name was Salvador Fernandes Zarco.

Columbus was not Portuguese but sail for the Portuguese King before sailing for Castilla

Colombo wrote castillian with some mistakes, using Portuguese words inside sentences. There is no record of a noble woman marring a non noble man in Portugal at that time.

The best evidence is spelling mistakes in handwritten documents. He wrote Castillian and he occasionally used the portugese words... second is he named Cuba, Cuba. A portugese town not a castillian place.

10:58 WOW ! That was tragically poetic

I am portuguese. I totaly agree that Cristovão Colombo was portuguese. Mi great grand- fader says that he was from a portuguese small village in Alentejo called Lugares Colombinos, witch is near Cuba a vilage about 60km northwest from Beja. I would ike to remeber everybody that, if a person learn portuguese and speak it from young, is relatively easy for him to learn and speake spanish later in his life. But the oposit is very dificult. I know same strangers anglo-saxonics ho came to live Portugal that they cant learn to speak portuguese, but they can learn and speake to made themselves understanding in spanish. And more,the most portuguese people understand and can speak a litle spanish. But the spanish people not born in portugal, dont understand portuguese language. So if Colombo write in portuguese, if in was not portuguese ad if is was born and raise in Gnenova he must be a genius. Sory mi english, i dont use to write it very often. God bless everyone

Yes i know that along time im portuguese good bless you !!

There is more info to add... First: Que plebeu poderia ter casado com uma nobre de alta estirpe em portugal do seculo XV ? Que espanhol voltaria da primeira viagem e se dirigiria a portugal para se encontrar com o rei e com a rainha em ocasiões diferentes? E ainda entrar pelo rio Mira adentro para visitar um amigo em Odemira ? Na segunda viagem se nao estou enganado fez um desvio a costa de Marrocos para ajudar os portugueses que se encontravam cercados em Arzila, quem faria isto sem ser português e ainda por cima com barcos e meios que não lhe pertenciam ? O Papa refere-se a ele em duas ocasiões diferentes como Cristóvão, não cristobal nem cristoforo . Exitem ainda mais factos mas estes são os que me parecem mais interessantes.

The Cuba connection nailed it for me.

Nasceu em cuba!!!! Portugal

Thought provoking, Elena! Gracias! ; )

Certainly Colon would have never been accepted in his first wife family had he not been of noble ancestry. Probably he was the son of the Duke of Beja and a jewish woman from Cuba, near Beja. Probably the Portuguese king's intention by sending him to Seville was to lure the Castillians to the west and keep them away from India. The knowledge the Portuguese had from the West had its origins in the Zheng He voyages, circa 1420, that a certain Venitian had brought to the Vatican where Infant Pedro, a brother of Henry, found it.

Suggested that once in Genova,they almost beheaded me...

5:31 the Jews living in Spain at the time of expulsion didn't have a language of their own. They spoke the same fifteenth century Castillian as anyone else. After expulsion the Castillian language evolved in the people of Spain and the expelled Jews separately, the former becoming modern day Spanish, the latter becoming the Ladino that still keeps many grammatical and phonetic characteristics of the language of the fifteenth century.

One of the best analyzes about Colon. Clever! Thanks. We must not forget Seville was full of Portuguese refugees. And it's also clear that Fernando and Isabelle knew exactly who Colon was. Unfortunately, an important character is never mentioned. SantAngel was insignificant compared to the extremely powerful and very rich Alvaro de Portugal. Alvaro de Portugal, the most important person in the entire kingdom after the Catholic kings, was the true supporter and protector of his countryman Colon. For me there is only one reason that Colon didn't reveal his origins. Not even to his sons. He didn't want to protect himself, not his faith, but something much, much more important. A legend. A myth. A saint. - His royal father: Henry the Navigator!

This is one of the best documentaries I have seen😊, we live next to the museo Cristobal Colon in Calle Colon in Valladolid, Spain.

EVERYONE KNOWS BUT THEY DONT ADMIT

At high school I easily always told Cristóvão Colombo was Portuguese but that there was this tripartite of Portugal Spain and Italy making the same claims. It’s like Saint Anthony or Santo António. He was born in Lisbon, went to Morocco and then to Italy where he professed his faith in Padua where he died and yet the Italians claim he was Italian from Padua.

Colombo, espião português do mais alto gabarito. Plano bem urdido…

Columbo meaning "Dove" in English can be a "nickname", very normal among Portuguese culture special those was "new Cristian" (jewels convert), in XV Portugal had about 200 thousands jewels and 800 thousands total population, everything changed and many jewels left of Portugal with the Inquisitions and only in XIX Colombo become Italian. In the past, the jewels didn't had a Estate (Israel) to protect them, that why Colombo as Jews didn't told anything to his sons. Pedro Alvez Cabral discovered Brasil, today many documents show Cabral was "new Cristian" as Columbo. I lived in Genoa in 1988 for 3 months and my landlord Genovese doesn't believed Colombo was Genovese, first there is no prove he lived in Genova, the Columbus house em Genova are not genuine. Colombo surname are from North Lombardi and not from Liguria The unification of Italy sec XIX had a movement "Il Risorgimento" very nationalistic movement which took Colombo, Marcus Pollo and Santo Antonio as Italians, these 3 important persons are not Italian, but from Portugal - Columbo and Santo Antonio) and Marco Paulo from Croatia. Italy are a fantastic country but there is a mafia there, very good is falsification.

Has the DNA results been released? I haven't been able to find the results if they have been released. Which I kind of feel like the results would have made headlines the world over by now. Thanks for the help and thank you for this incredible content! Keep it up! So fascinating!!

We in Portugal do not claim this guy y’all Americans can keep him

4:20 The edict of expulsion only concerned the Jews living in Spain. The Muslims were ultimately also expelled, but at a later date.

I have seen that beautiful carved monument in Lisbon.

He was also lost when he landed in what is now being called Hispagnola

Amazing explication, well done!

Amazing!

Astonishing. Thank you.

LOL! Why is Portuguese nationalists always fixated on Spain? We see Portugal as our dear brother, and Portugal in return has allied with our enemies regardless… No, Columbus was not Portuguese. Historians have e speculated with multiple hypotheses of whether Columbus was Genoese, or Portuguese or Galician. Truth is Columbus is well remembered for sailing across the Atlantic and claiming territories for the Crown of Spain.

He would have called Cuba Little Genoa, he would have gone to Rome for finances, I'm sure he would have gotten finances from some Italian nobleman if he ever were Italian. Italy would have taken claim of some American lands as well. Put all that together and you can conclude he clearly wasn't Italian.

Italians are Latin. In fact Lazio is part of Italy

A good story, but way too much assumption, conjecture and inaccuracy here……. Looking at the past through the glasses of today, in terms of nationalities, language, religion, etc. Salazar’s Estado Novo was desperate to claim Columbus, or Cristóvão Colon, as being Portuguese as part of their nationalist schtick. They had over 50 years to do it….. but came up with nothing convincing, a lot of conjecture backed by nationalist zeal, but no real proof. (I have a house in Beja district and have been married to a Portuguese for 35 years). Many who were educated during the pre-1974 period are still desperate to prove the Portuguese connection….. You suggest that merchants were poor or ignorant, but they were businessmen who needed to be able to transport goods and converse with their customers. Do I need to mention Marco Polo? There is also John Cabot “of Bristol”, also a Genoese and a navigator and explorer. As a Genoese, Colon (not Colón, he was certainly not Spanish!) would have spoken a sub-dialect of Ligurian and certainly not “Italian”….. so it is natural he would learn to converse in other tongues. You say he wrote in Portuguese, “Spanish” and “Catalan” but actually, the surprise is that he did not write in Latin, as this was the language of the educated. “Spanish”, as a defined language, did not exist at the time, so it must be Castilian or Aragonese, or some form of lingua-franca used at the court of the Catholic monarchs (certainly not Ladino, which was created by expelled Iberian Jews) - and his “Spanish” is not good - using many Portuguese terms and phrases. Equally you claim he wrote in Mallorcan, describing that as “Catalan”, but both actually derive from Occitan, a language spoken right across the whole northern Mediterranean and heavily influenced by Ligurian….. so it’s actually a tick in the Genoa box as there’s nothing to suggest he lived in that part of Spain. The use of Hebrew is also not unlikely for a merchant, with close links to Jewish merchants and bankers - and the use in modern Spanish of ojalá (oxalá in Portuguese) proves how bits of “other” languages easily become adopted. You make great play of the expulsion of the Jews from the lands of the Catholic monarchs (NOT Iberia) in 1492, to support the theory that he might have been a “new Christian” (a converted Jew…. “converso” seems to be a Spanish term). But Jews actually crossed INTO Portugal in 1492, for safety - they were not persecuted there until much later (giving rise to the so-called “Spanish” inquisition). Columbus had not had a connection with Spain long before this expulsion anyway…. and actually it was closely tied up with the fall of Granada, the eventual reconquest of Moorish lands and a subsequent surge in Christian nationalism, rather than some undercurrent of antizonism. I think, overall, you make rather too much of possible Jewish connections - though it’s not impossible that he had Jewish blood, due to close connections with Jewish merchants and bankers - in Italy as much as Iberia. However, he married well…. unlikely for an ignorant merchant with Jewish roots…. but his wife, though born in Portuguese territory, was the daughter of the Governor of Porto Santo, whose own family originated in “Italy” and who had previously been a navigator. Oddly, Columbus was accepted into this gentleman’s family - but that might be easier if you are from “the old country”. There are many claims he “stole” his father-in-law’s charts…. and it is known that he had worked as a cartographer in Lisbon (another point you overlook)….. so this marriage seems to be key to his future discoveries. You also ignore the fact that his only reason for turning to the Catholic monarchs was because his proposals were rejected by the Portuguese king, and he went, cap in hand, to the rivals. Ferdinand and Isabela were the lucky inheritors of Portugal’s concentration on the eastward route to the far east (remember the Portuguese reached Japan by 1543!). His main connections with “Spain” only stem from that point…. up until then, he was certainly an adopted Portuguese….. but probably not born there. There is much, much more…. and it only proves the fluidity of the concepts of nationality, language, etc. As you have said, he did not even tell his sons much of his history….. so trying to establish it now is nigh on impossible.

Columbus was Italian married to a Portuguese woman

Unfortunately we live in an era when historical revisionism is fashionable. Cristoforo Colombo was Genovese by birth. He sailed from a young age to many parts of the knows world and married a Portuguese woman at a relatively young age. Anything that speaks to the contrary is pure conjecture and innuendo. Basta!

Please dnt be ridiculous he was born in Genova Italy. He sailed from Portugal

Fascinating history. Thanks for posting this content.

Anyone who wants to can prove that Columbus was Genoese. I bet you don't even know that Columbus has living descendants (Colón de Carvajal) here in Spain. Columbus proposed to the Portuguese crown to finance his expedition and had no success, so he went to the Spanish crown and got it.

San Francesco era polacco. Il feroce Saladino era lituano. Charles Darwin era vietnamita.

babavoss2699 Acho que tem razão, porque desde criança ouvi que Colombo tinha um segredo que nunca revelou. Por isso quando ele voltou da expedição custeada pelos reis católicos, ele veio a Portugal encontrar se com a Rainha D.Leonor que estava num palácio perto de Vila Franca de Xira. Naquele tempo não seria fácil encontrar se com a Rainha, se ele não fosse de ascendência nobre. Que pena para Espanhóis e Italianos!

Not True, he was not Portuguese, according to the Institute of new history in Barcelona, he was Catalan, as were also Cervantes, god, Einstein and Galileo Galilei.

Is Portugues all islands was name from Portuguese locals like cuba..cuba is a town in alentejo and zarco aka colombo have a statue in is lical homme town cuba alentejo portugal.

The purported Italian origin of Columbus is pure nonsense which dates back to Mussolini's time and creative hypernationalism. Many more details point to Columbus being Catalan than Portuguese, starting with his surname and language. His writings were full of catalanisms, not portuguesisms. He wrote Catalan, not Spanish, as a native, and must have been one. I cannot say about Portuguese though I am fluent in all three languages, because I haven't read him in Portuguese, but there's a book published 10-15 years ago, from a US lady and academic, who did the linguistic research and established that Columbus mother tongue must have been Catalan. As for his surname, Columbus himself wrote that in Castile his surname had been filed, not cut or shortened, merely filed, implying Colom was changed to Colon. The reason is that Colom, a common Catalan surname equivalent to Italian Colombo, is mispronunced by Spanish speakers as Colon. Spanish does not have words ending in m. Colom did spend enough time in Portugal to learn Portuguese, which is less difficult for a Catalan speaker than a Spanish speaker. I am myself a native Catalan and Spanish speaker, and near-native Portuguese speaker. But had Colom been a Portuguese, how would you explain his native Catalan? We could add many other details that point to his having been a Catalan, whether from Barcelona or Majorca (both locations being part of Catalonia back then, in the Crown of Aragon). It is not just that the Crown of Aragon, through Lluís de Santàngel, paid for the expedition (contrary to the Castilian tale about queen Isabella's jewels). It is also that Colom wrote that king Ferdinand was his "natural lord", which unambiguously means that he was Ferdinand's subject. Therefore, he could only be a man born from subjects of the king, i.e. subjects stemming from any of the Crown's domains, i.e. in Aragon or Catalonia. But he wrote in Catalan, not Aragonese. And Aragon is landlocked while he was an outstanding sailor, a navigator. Plus, when he came back from his first voyage, the king waited for him in Sant Jeroni de la Murta, very close to Barcelona. Plus, in Barcelona, there was at the time a noble family where all names of Colom's known relatives names have a match. It was a very significant noble family, not wool traders. A family that sided against king Ferdinand's father during the Catalan civil war, which would explain why his identity was better kept under wraps for mutual convenience. The king must absolutely have known who he really was. PS: French Coulon seems to be a pretty obvious francization of Catalan Colom. French cognate for Catalan Colom and Italian Colombo (both masculine) is Colombe (feminine). Both Colombo and Colombe have similarly sounding letters O, while "Coulon" (like Coulomb, also French) has OU which is the same sound in French as first O in Colom in Catalan. Which suggests that in Colom's shipwreck survival, he was in fact captain "Coulon". "Coulon" is not French, like "Colon" isn't Spanish, and both are exactly the same in each language to Colom in Catalan: mere transliterations. An hypothetical Italian Colombo would never have had his surname mispronunced and miswritten in Spanish or Portuguese. As for an hypothetical Portuguese man, his surname wouldn't make sense. Portuguese cognate for the word is "pombo". The navigator's surname simply wasn't Portuguese. And by the way, main modern authors to support the Catalan origin of Colom, from the first a century ago, Ulloa (a Peruvian), to the latest, Estelle Irizarry and Charles Merrill, are not even Catalan.

So far I remember Columbus was genovese. He had a plan to find the way to India going west and presented to the, then, maritime empire, Portugal. Portugal refused and so, he went to the second, then, empire, Spain who accepted to finance his project. This is what I knew. You just put doubts in my knowledge :-). At same time why portuguese refused the Columbus offer ? We are talking around 1490. And Portugal at the time allready knew the existence of land in the west and that it was not the way to India ... Later the tordesilhas agreement was signed and Portugal insisted in the specific line (that included land - Brasil). Spain, at the time was still in the early stages of navigation.

I guess Portugal should be the country given grief over "Slave Trade Reparations" instead of us now.

well heres one for you the flag that you sail with make you a zitzen of that country aLSO its been said that he was from barcelona an he did have family in italy but his correspondence with the queen an king were in spanish an catalan an its said the he wrote to his family in italy were in spanish an not italian something to ponder

Can we not do a genetic test?

Columbus was Norwegian!

Then , why he had a greek name and surname?

The most stupid act in this quest is that italians promote a paint figure on italian colombo as a midle age man...but he lives in cuba alentejo, than madeira ..after spain....an then sails to new worls ...we dont factually is was never in italy ...as a adult man is impossible! Fake picture

Away and booil your heed!!!!!,😂😂😂😂

This is a problem that should have been fixed by not allowing other cultures to add their own interpretations of historical figures' last names. Colon should have stayed Colon or Colom in all the books. Not have some white historian butcher the name by calling it Columbus. When clearly in all the historical documents there was no Columbus or Columbo written anywhere.

Portugues, por mis cojones catolicos. Anglo lover.

Moré RU-vid bullshit…

He was Genovese, actually. Take credit or blame for your own endeavors.

Columbus left Italy as a child He had lots of time to pick up other languages

Columbus was black

Wrong. Columbus always defined himself as Genovese and he was referred to by others as Genovese. We can travel his family history extensively.

He was from Colombia

As I understood it he was italian, born in Genoa italy. He went to italian rulers and they weren't interested. He went to the portuguese crown and they weren't interested. Even the spanish king wasn't but his wife was and convinced him to fund Columbuses trip.

If I was Portuguese, I’d be embarrassed to have anything to do with Columbus.

Columbus came from Genova

Not true. Not "Literati" enough on the topic, I'm afraid. And I'm portuguese. But, tbf, I wouldn't want such an illiterate hardcore pro-slavery / genocider with serious navigational impairment to be considered portuguese. No idea why some people celebrate such a stumbling monster, we had far better explorers and human beings in our ranks in his time.

A Moor...

So, he was ,so called ' black '...