Bombardment of Genoa by Duquesne in 1684, by Beaulieu le Donjon. In 1682, François Pidou de Saint Olon had become the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa, [2] and he was actively ...

In 1625, when the Republic of Genoa, traditionally an ally of Spain, was occupied by French troops of the Duke of Savoy, the city underwent a hard siege. It was known in Genoese governmental circles ...

In fact, according to the book A New Theory Clarifying the Identity of Christopher Columbus: A Byzantine Prince from Chios, Greece” Columbus never said he was from Genoa. He said he was from the ...

14 as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus, the 15th-century explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa (now part of the modern day Italy) who is celebrated for his discovery of ...

According to the study, approximately 200,000 Jews lived in Spain during the Middle Ages, while the Republic of Genoa — the most widely accepted birthplace of the navigator — had no more than 15,000.

A recently televised documentary in Spain rekindles competing versions of the famed explorer's origins, but the scientific ...

15, 2024. (Tano Pecoraro/LaPresse via AP) Albania’s Taulant Seferi, center, and Rey Manaj take the ball in front of Ukraine’s Ruslan Malinovskyi during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between ...

King Charles sends message to Australia as monarch arrives for first visit since cancer diagnosis - The visit is King Charles ...

Scepticism from scholars Historians continue to support the traditional view that Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa to a Christian family, with his father Domenico and mother Susanna. Antonio ...

NO. Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial ...

Columbus, an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa, died aged 55 in 1506. Passing in the northwest Spanish city of Valladolid, he wished to be buried on the island of Hispaniola ...