 Christopher
Columbus Was Polish: New Book Shows Proof, Readers Say
WARSAW, Poland, May 17, 2012 - During the last few days
Manuel Rosa, author of "KOLUMB.
Historia Nieznana," a book published May 8, 2012 in
Poland - translated from the Spanish book "COLON. La
Historia Nunca Contada" - was a guest of REBIS in
Poland. The book's main thesis that the "official
history" of Columbus was incorrect has roused a lot of
questions - controversies, but also lots of support for
the results of the research made by Mr. Rosa. The idea
that Christopher Columbus was a Portuguese-born noble of
Polish origin through his father, Polish King Vladislau
III Warnenczyk, who disappeared in Varna (10th November
1444), is very fascinating. Nevertheless, it is also
quite revolutionary, so it causes, of course, a lot of
doubts and questions. The best way to answer these
concerns was to have Mr. Rosa visit Poland, where he
remained for nearly a week. During his stay Manuel Rosa
gave some 30 interviews to the media - from general TV
programs and newspapers to radio, specialized historical
magazines and portals, along with a Lecture in Poznan.
"It is really a big success," says Boguslaw Tobiszowski,
Chief Marketing Officer at REBIS Publishing House, the
Polish publisher of the book, recapitulating the visit.
"We expected some interest from the media and readers,
but it was beyond our expectations; marvelous. People
want to know the truth even when it turns upside-down
all that the official history maintained as fact until
today." Many skeptical points of view were crushed by
hard arguments presented by Mr. Rosa, which were
carefully collected during 21 years of research into the
life of Christopher Columbus. His opponents, among them
university historians, came to appreciate the gigantic
work he has done researching the sources - books, maps
and documents - and visiting all the places involved....
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Academics Assert
Christopher Columbus Was "Portuguese-Born"
First Christopher Columbus was an Italian
wool-weaver. Then they claimed he was a Jew. Now a
new biography shows that Christopher Columbus was a
"Portuguese-Born" Royal Prince
The Portuguese-born historian, who resides in the USA,
was invited to present his research at the Portuguese
Academy of History, May 16, 2012. It was standing room
only as nearly 200 Portuguese historians, researchers
and academics packed the Portuguese Academy of History
to listen to the latest results of Rosa’s 21-year
investigation. The focused debate soon confronted the
often-peddled idea that the Genoese Cristoforo Colombo,
a poor peasant weaver, could marry the noble Filipa
Moniz in Portugal, some 15 years before his monumental
voyage. Academics agree that it was not possible in
Medieval Times for peasants to marry nobles and, facing
that impossibility, the man who discovered America had
to be a nobleman by birth just like his Portuguese wife
was.
Facilitating their conclusion were other facts presented
in Mr. Rosa's lecture, such as; Christopher Columbus did
not know Italian because all his letters, even to
Italians, are written in a Portuguese-flavored Spanish,
Christopher Columbus wrote on March 1493 that Portugal
was his “homeland” and a Spanish court document
from 1487 was presented which describes Christopher
Columbus as “a Portuguese.”
Convinced by Rosa’s presentation, the President of the
Portuguese Academy of History, Professor Maria Manuela
Mendonça, declared in an interview on May 19 to the
Diario do Alentejo newspaper
http://da.ambaal.pt/agenda/?id=691, that, “Columbus
was Portuguese. If he was not born in Portugal, then he
had to have arrived in Portugal at a very, very young
age” [to acquire the Portuguese language as his mother
tongue.] This declaration contradicts the established
history, which claims that the Genoese Cristoforo
Colombo arrived in Portugal in 1476 at age 25, and, by
hiding his peasant identity, fooled the court and
married a high noble lady two years later....
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