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Columbus voyage

by Arkady Pugachevsky

99×52 mm, X6/2, 1992, op. # 17
owner (customer): A. Cupchak

Sailing ship arriving in a new world; Columbus voyage

Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the Western Hemisphere and of the American continents. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Afro-Eurasia — preceded some five hundred years by Leif Ericson, and perhaps by others — Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his several hapless attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, he personally initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the «New World».

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