genoese

The holiday and memorials in many cities aren’t really about the Genoese explorer who served a Spanish king.

The archaeology of Crimea is pretty interesting; abandoned Soviet submarine bases, Genoese castles, Pontic and Byzantine ruins.

I wonder if the concrete in those sculptures is of the same quality as the concrete of Genoese bridges.

Venetians, and especially the Genoese had large slave populations at the time.

Just such an outfit appears in a portrait of an anonymous Genoese nobleman by the artist van Dyck which, to modern eyes, looks relatively sober.

From the wikipedia article on Mediterranean Lingua Franca > Based mostly on Northern Italian languages (mainly Venetian and Genoese dialects) and secondarily from Occitano-Romance languages...

In the same way, putting Ukrainian with turkomongol and genoese roots in the same bucket as Russians, or as Poles would be clearly decried by 19th century racists.

There was a study on, I think, Genoese families that showed that wealth had more or less stayed within the same families for 300 years.

), it wasn't widely known (or at least believed) in Italy at the time (since Genoese maps didn't reflect North American lands).

According to Wikipedia: > Before the arrival of Europeans, the Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited.[12] The islands of the Cape Verde archipelago were discovered by Genoese and Portuguese navigators around 1456.

Columbus was friendly with a number of Chian Genoese families, referenced Chios in his writings and used the Greek language for some of his notes.[65] 'Columbus' remains a common surname on Chios.

And this manuscript itself is perfectly plausible - all it's really showing is that one Italian friar somehow (perhaps via Genoese sailors) learnt about what Viking sailors already knew about the New World.

I guess technically it was a "hack" though, the Genoese bought anyone the Mongols were selling and shipped them to Egypt and other Muslim states without anyone back at home asking too many questions..

In 1768, with the Treaty of Versailles (1768), the Genoese republic ceded all its rights on the island.” However, Corsica was already de facto independent from Genoa at this time, so France had to send troops to conquer it.

As an Eastern-European, I can definitely say that after year 1000 we were not pagans, but Christian-Ortodox, but it’s true that the Genoese and the Venetians trading us around the Black Sea called us “schismatics”, i.e.

That's not how banking got started back in the 15th-16th century, I never read of the Genoa bankers for example asking Philip II "hey, why don't you let us rob you of your South America gold?", as far as I know it was the other way round (Philip II screwing the Genoese bankers).

In Columbus' time the Genoese, the Venetians, the Sardinians, etc.

> But it could help explain why Columbus, a Genoese, was prepared to set off across what most contemporaries considered a landless void.

From the article: > Over the centuries, it has been suggested that the explorer could have been Genoese, Basque, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Portuguese or Scottish.