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Madariaga

American  
[mah-thah-ryah-gah] / ˌmɑ ðɑˈrjɑ gɑ /

noun

  1. Salvador de Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, 1886–1978, Spanish diplomat, historian, and writer in England.


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Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

“We do not have any official notification from the Vatican about the existence of a complaint of this type,” Josefina Madariaga, director of Opus Dei’s press office in Argentina, told the AP.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

H. G. Wells got into a squabble with Salvador de Madariaga.

From Time Magazine Archive

That I must change my name to Ernandes or Fernandes, or Blas or Chas, or Sandariaga, Gorostiaga, Madariaga, or any other 'aga,' and conspire to overthrow the existing order of things.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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