The 500-year-old mystery of Christopher Columbus - BBC REEL 

I don't doubt that he certainly had some political ties with Portugal before or after. I'm from Newfoundland and there have always been close fishing ties with Portugal. As the story goes John Cabot went back in search of this new world but was blown off course to land at what is now Newfoundland and Labrador. Shortly after its discovery by Cabot, Portuguese fishing boats were the earliest to fear the waters on a quest for cod and whales, both for food and their oils. There is even a place called Portugal Cove that dates back to these seasonal fishing grounds. I remember my great uncle telling me about Newfoundland's close connection to Portugal. Fish and timber were great commodities and plentiful in Newfoundland in those days and the Portuguese were one of the first countries to take advantage of it.

If he ran away from Portugal, how come, on his way back to Europe in 1493 he arrives Santa Maria Island and is very well received in there, few days after he arrives in Lisbon and stays there for a week and again is very well received by the king and also by the Queen and is also offered safe passage by land to Spain?? He was clearly a friend of Portugal..

There are so many things that are wrong here....

What about 2021 result?

Well we’re waiting….

does anybody know what were the results of the 2021 DNA analysis on the remains of Ataide in Portugal and Columbus in Spain as Fernando Branco sets out in this video?

I don't know why the secrecy, the absolute disdain over the possibility of Columbus being Portuguese? The DNA results should have been out by now, but it keeps on dragging, why??? This "theory" is more than solid, but why the negative thoughts?

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Jew from Genoa. A 'Marrano' who was forced to convert to Christianity to avoid persecution

There are too many discrepancies between Christopher Colombo, the weaver from Genova, and Christopher Colon, the Admiral.

telling that a guy that even didn’t know how to speak italian that he was italian was one of the great lies the world have seen

A fascinating history this is.

572years old & 🗝️ u r still alive narrating your lifestory😮miracle

Well, this is just another theory. There is solid evidence he was a Sephardic Converso.

Sorry, guys. Seems you got this wrong.

Cristovão Colombo was portuguese born in the village of Cuba in Alantejo Portugal, thats why the country of Cuba has that name, because Cristovão Colombo named it

He was probably from Galicia, Spain or North Portugal.

This is something the Portuguese do a lot. They always try to claim Christopher Columbus as one of them and I really don’t know why. Even Portuguese historians do this. Spaniards on the other hand never hesitate to tell that christopher Columbus was Italian and from Genoa. I mean I understand why it’s that way since Columbus studied at Portugal and showed loyalty to the country but u don’t need to claim him. Christopher Columbus’s children were Spanish and Portuguese and this is known and public information. He had close ties to the Portugal/Spain area due to the fact he was employed and sponsored by Spain for his voyage to Asia. Christopher Columbus did however attempt to interest king John II of Portugal for a voyage to discover the west so it’s not surprising he wrote in Portuguese. We gotta base Christopher’s heritage on him and him alone. Not his ties to the Spanish/Portuguese area. His wife, his kids, add nothing nor do they prove nothing to the story.

If he were Italian, why didn't Italy colonize any of these countries?

That he was Portuguese, I have no doubt, But I think all people who like history should ask: what's the point in saying that he was a Genoese at the time? Don't forget important points: 1- When Columbus arrived in the present-day Antilles, he said that he had discovered the Maritime Route to India, which was a common interest of the Crowns of Spain, Portugal and of course the Genoese because if another Crown discovered this maritime route it would enter into dispute with the old Spices Orient route. 2- Even after Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to the Indies, the Genoese were allies of the sultans against the Portuguese navy, so saying that Columbus was Genoese would have a lot of political interest, as the spice trade = money and power

The Firth European Man in Arriving In America Is The Great Navegant And Explorer Leif Ericksson In The Years 1009 ,500 Before The Genoves Colon He Arriving Firth in Vinland And Terranova (Actual Canada) and The River Hudson, After Come Back To Groenland

I suggest you the book in spanish "Cristóbal Colón y el periplo de Hannón" or "Christopher Columbus and Hanno's periplus"

The first Cuba land is in Alentejo portugal!

Sources say his cousin was Juan Ponce Deleon. Wouldnt that make him atleast part Spaniard?

Despite the salty comments section, the video seemed pretty convincing to me (whats up, Western Civ crew)

He always signed as Colón and all his letters to his son's in Castilian language. I only can imagine signing in Castillian and writing in this language to my son's if that's my mothertonge

Finally gotta true facts and right knowledge.

I am still waiting for someone to tell me how a commoner from Genova son of a weaver learned how to command battle ships, inflitrate high society, marry a Portugue Noble woman and all this failiing to writte in Genovese or Italian but doing a great job of sending letters in Spaning with potuguese words and phrasing which are mistakes we still do today when we try to speak Castillian. Anyone believing this is possible is an absolute lunatic. Colombus being Genovese is the proof that society can believe the dumbest most insane things.

Never existed someone, by that time,with the name of Cristopher Columbus.

Today is a good day😊 for us spanish. Its 12 of October, Hispanic day and it came out Cristóbal colón was from Spain.

He was born in Cuba. Now go search how that was possible and you will find the truth.

...and here i was thinking that were the Britts that nearly exterminated the Native Americans...guess is easier for the descendents to focus on Columbus!

As a Portuguese American……….please don’t let Columbus be Portuguese .

I will read/listen pre nap. Especially the weaving.

christopher columbus, or whatever was his true name; he lived in th difficult juncture of time for Europe, in which new means successful against Islam were needed, though progress had not yet delivered such new means, namely gun-powder guns. Hence, one interpretation of some Europeans then, in seeking sea passages to Asia, was in hopes to link up with who also were enemies of Islam. And the 2nd motive of European exploration was passed on by C Columbus himself, as in search of addittional wealth for Europe, to be used in defeat of Islam. As he lived, the Ottoman Empire had proven its armies as unbeatable by what Europe had in the way of armies, & the only thing then , that thwarted these new Muslim leaders of Islam, was. the Ottoman's protracted process of finding sultans as previous ones died. And the central focus of C Columbus with the two Spanish monarchs, to 1492, might had been how to counter the Ottoman threat on Europe then, & something most historians do not address. Or why else did they allow C.Columbus, for years in their court, to keep him dangling, if there was not something else to be gained from the Genoese through favoring that he be in this royal court for years? (The Genoese were allowed favored trading status in Istanbul, in this time, that allowed them to be the eyes & ears for many of the rulers of Europe, as to what the Ottoman's were doing, then.) He most likely had another name, a patrician Genoese name.

Christopher Columbus was the son of a Polish king. This is the claim being made by a Portuguese historian and Columbus scholar, who says that the man who sailed for the New World in 1492 was not the son of a Genoese weaver but the son of 15th-century Polish King Władysław III.

Christopher Columbus adventure was in 1492 what Gillighan's Island was in the 60's. He just went out to the sea with some drinking buddies. The rest is history.

I always thought an Italian just couldn't commit such brutalities as referred to in the video.

Using a diff name while in Portugal is a big clue and if hes Portuguese but pretending to be Italian bit of a ghost

500 years from now they will be saying woops we made a mistake. He was a good man after all .. unbelievable

Wasn’t he Jewish and changed his name

so everything i knew or thought i knew from his life is a lie

Why every thing is positive about jews and theres hatred about jews can you do a vlog about it

DUKE OF CADIZ

ridiculous

Opportunist BBC

It's 2024 and I thought I will review, and revise some of the unfounded comments of Columbus being Portuguese or Spanish. To clarify for the illiterate or functional illiterates that use social media for knowledge, Columbus was Genoese. He grew up in Genoa and started his sea faring career with Genoese traders. Genoa like Venice were international powers of the sea during the Renaissance, before the Dutch and English. At this time, Spain had some control over Italian dominions like Campania, and Calabria. Spanish speakers were present on Italian soil, and Italian merchants had markets in Seville. The Spanish connection is there as he was hired by Spanish royalty when he made the request to undertake exploration of the Caribbean. The founding of Hispaniola was a default 'discovery'. And it did not happen over night! The Genoese thought Columbus was mad for wanting to take such a risk and sail on the Atlantic. Please note at this time almost no sailors crossed the Atlantic. Columbus petitioned Spanish royalty to fund 'this risk'. That is the short of it. Reference texts. Charles C. Mann; 1493. Henry Kamen; Spain's Road to Empire. To the detractors of these facts, bluster all you like. Columbus was Italian.

Spain Discover América

que horrible idioma es el portugues

Colon era valenciano