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A DNA study of the navigator, the first European to reach America, indicates that he had Sephardic Jewish ancestors, a rare number in 17th-century Genoa. fifteenth. Most likely it is from the Iberian Peninsula.
More than 500 years after his death, in Valladolid, Spain, Christopher Columbus's nationality is still debated today. But from Genoa, in Italy, the officially accepted version would almost certainly not be the case. This is what is mentioned in the documentary film about the DNA examination of the discoverer of America, which was carried out by the University of Granada in Spain. Colon DNA. Its true origin (Colombo ADN. Its true origin, in Portuguese) It was broadcast on television in the neighboring country, on October 12, the Spanish National Day, revealing Columbus as Jewish and, more importantly, Spanish, but it wouldn't be quite that either. “The results indicate that he had Sephardic Jewish ancestors, originally from the Iberian Peninsula,” explains Fernando Branco, researcher at the Instituto Tecnologia Superiore and honorary member of the Portuguese Academy of History. “It is further evidence that Columbus was Portuguese,” confirms the author of Cristóvão Colón's book, Nobre Português, from 2012.