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National Day of Spain

1492 is a pivotal year in the history of Spain. On currently in the Bahamas. He subsequently made
January 2, the Catholic Monarchs conquered three other trips to America, boosting the global
the city of Granada, ending nearly eight centuries expansion of European culture and colonization
of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. That of the American continent.
same year, the Genovese navigator Christopher Although Columbus possibly was not the first
Columbus gained funding from the Spanish European explorer to arrive in America, he is
crown for his project to open a new trade considered the ‘discoverer’ of the New World
route to the West Indies. On October 12, 1492 for being the first to trace a path back and forth
Columbus arrives at the island of Guanahani, across the Atlantic Ocean and make known the
news. The colonization (word derived
of Columbus) of America caused the
almost complete disappearance of
existing cultures (like the Inca and
Aztec empires) and the replacement
of indigenous languages by the
languages of the Europeans: Spanish,
Portuguese (Brazilian) and English (in
North America). Despite all, the Spanish
coexists in South America with dozens
of indigenous languages: Quechua,
Guarani, Aymara, Nauhatl .... that
are still spoken by millions of people.
October 12 is celebrated the National
Day of Spain (Dia de la Hispanidad).

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