No authentic map of Columbus was known until Prof. P. Kahle in 1929 found among a number of old charts in the Seraglio at Istanbul a coloured Turkish map of the Atlantic with its islands and coasts.

Christopher Columbus never set foot in the continental United States, and his journey to the Western Hemisphere occurred 284 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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