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===Marco Polo/Franz Joseph Haydn===

===Marco Polo/Franz Joseph Haydn===

Nowadays in Croatia (and through Internet in the United States also) they maintain that '''Marco Polo''' was born on Croatian island of Korcula <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzola#History Wikipedia-Korcula History]</ref>  ''(historically Curzola;<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fATxz5DB5BUC&pg=PA164&dq=Close+by+is+the+palace+of+a+certain+Signor+Arnieri,+the+principal+landed+proprietor+of+Curzola,&lr=#v=onepage&q=Close%20by%20is%20the%20palace%20of%20a%20certain%20Signor%20Arnieri%2C%20the%20principal%20landed%20proprietor%20of%20Curzola%2C&f=false Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic] by Andrew A. Paton</ref>) up to 1920s the main town of the island was populated by an Italian majority)'' and that he was a Croat, not a Venetian, without any document to prove it.  

Nowadays in Croatia (and through Internet in the United States also) they maintain that '''Marco Polo''' was born on Croatian island of Korcula <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzola#History Wikipedia-Korcula History]</ref>  ''(historically Curzola;<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fATxz5DB5BUC&pg=PA164&dq=Close+by+is+the+palace+of+a+certain+Signor+Arnieri,+the+principal+landed+proprietor+of+Curzola,&lr=#v=onepage&q=Close%20by%20is%20the%20palace%20of%20a%20certain%20Signor%20Arnieri%2C%20the%20principal%20landed%20proprietor%20of%20Curzola%2C&f=false Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic] by Andrew A. Paton</ref> up to 1920s the main town of the island was populated by an Italian majority)'' and that he was a Croat, not a Venetian, without any document to prove it.  

They also appropriate ''Giovanni da Verrazzano'', the Tuscan explorer who is considered to be the first European to have discovered the bay of New York, in 1524 (decades before Henry Hudson). For this primacy his name was given to the spectacular modern bridge that connects Brooklyn with Staten Island. But now Verrazzano is proclaimed “Croat”. Why? Because while exploring the Eastern Atlantic coast going North, he used to give some Dalmatian names to certain territories and islands he discovered during his voyage. So Verrazzano becomes “Vranjanin or Vrancic”.  

They also appropriate ''Giovanni da Verrazzano'', the Tuscan explorer who is considered to be the first European to have discovered the bay of New York, in 1524 (decades before Henry Hudson). For this primacy his name was given to the spectacular modern bridge that connects Brooklyn with Staten Island. But now Verrazzano is proclaimed “Croat”. Why? Because while exploring the Eastern Atlantic coast going North, he used to give some Dalmatian names to certain territories and islands he discovered during his voyage. So Verrazzano becomes “Vranjanin or Vrancic”.  

*Preceding unsigned comment added  on Wikipedia's Talk-pages ''by'' ''IP 200.112.16.153'' (28 December 2009)

*Preceding unsigned comment added  on Wikipedia's Talk-pages ''by'' ''IP 200.112.16.153'' (28 December 2009)

*Comment edited by Peter Zuvela.

*Comment edited by Peter Zuvela.

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