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Columbus was born and grew up - according to all available sources and his own writings - in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. His adult life and undertakings were mostly linked to Portugal: before he started considering a westward route to the Indies, he had already become a succesful and widely travelled captain on Portuguese ships. His wife (who he later abandoned) was a Portuguese noblewoman called Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. He also and repeatedly tried to get financial backing for his westward journey from the Portuguese King; unsuccesfully however, since the King's geographers quickly discovered that Columbus' calculation of the location of India and China was off by thousands of miles. The theory that he was anything else or was born anywhere else has no basis in historical study and documentation.

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