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Pecos_Bill91 t1_ixk8rby wrote

Reply to comment by Jefe710 in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak

Technically I think they both may have been part of the same country under Charles V?

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ElHeim t1_ixvg0l9 wrote

Same Crown, not same "country". Those concepts were largely disconnected back then. Think of the current Commonwealth: same head of state (whoever is the King/Queen back at the UK), but a collection of independent countries. Not exactly the same concept, but close enough.

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Pecos_Bill91 t1_ixvgxnh wrote

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

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