• Italian as Marco da Nizza, but in the service of Spain, he came to be known as Fray Marcos de Niza. His surname is unknown. In 1530, Marcos travelled to...
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  • Fray Marcos is a town in the Florida Department of southern-central Uruguay. It is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the Santa Lucía River (the border...
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  • leading the Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, to commission Fray Marcos de Niza to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. Estevanico served...
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    the town of San Miguel de Culiacán by Nuño de Guzmán. When in 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza returned from Pimería Alta reporting he had seen the fabled cities...
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    From late 1965 through the spring of 1966, he starred on Broadway as Fray Marcos de Nizza in The Royal Hunt of the Sun. He made his film debut in The...
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  • factory of the Zabala candies in the old mill of Fray Marcos. "Fabrica De Caramelos Zabala en N/d , Fray Marcos – Informes 20". Informes20.com. "Caramelos"...
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    Spanish party to the Pueblo tribes as a scout for the expedition of Fray Marcos de Niza. Early anthropologist, Frederick J. Dockstader asserted that...
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    Railway, leased to Fred Harvey in 1925; in operation, different owners The Fray Marcos – Williams, Arizona; the site is now The Grand Canyon Railway Hotel,...
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  • Press. p. 259. ISBN 0806135387. "50 años del tornado de Fray Marcos" [50 years of the Fray Marcos tornado.]. cw33florida.uy (in Spanish). 21 April 2020...
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    The San Marcos Hotel is located on one of the prime corners of the original 1912 Chandler Townsite, at the northwest corner of San Marcos Place and Commonwealth...
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    Mexico. It was one of the original six pueblos of the Zuni people. The Fray Marcos de Niza expedition, led by Estevan the Moor, arrived to the area in 1539;...
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  • purpose of the conversion of its indigenous population. He succeeded Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan friar, as the Provincial of the province of the...
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    las aventuras de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban de Dorantes, y Fray Marcos de Niza". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 29 (1–2): 129–154. Lauber,...
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    Fray Thomas de San Martín (March 7, 1482 – August 31, 1555) was the founder of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, a notable Spanish scholar...
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    1814 to 1815. Fray Pedro Muñoz left California in 1817, and his place was taken by Fray Marcos Antonio de Vitoria from 1818 to 1820. Fray Ramón Ulibarri...
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    buildings constitute examples of a particular architectural style: the Fray Marcos Hotel with its Renaissance Revival characteristics; the Cabinet Saloon...
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  • serves as a minister of the Supreme Court of Uruguay. Morales was born in Fray Marcos, Florida and raised in Bolívar, one of the smallest towns in the Canelones...
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    ranchería, or seasonal village, called Sonoitac. In 1539, Spanish explorer Fray Marcos de Niza entered the area near Lochiel on the Mexican border. He continued...
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    was one of the first Harvey House hotels, named the Fray Marcos after Spanish missionary Marcos de Niza, who explored the Southwest in the early 16th...
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    wealthy empire. In 1539, Moorish slave Estevanico led an advance party of Fray Marcos de Niza's Spanish expedition. Sponsored by Antonio de Mendoza who wanted...
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    University of California Press, Berkeley. Schroeder, Albert E. (1955) "Fray Marcos de Niza, Coronado and the Yavapai". New Mex. Hist. Rev. 30:265–296; see...
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    second deadliest tornado in South America. On 21 April 1970, the town of Fray Marcos in the Department of Florida, Uruguay experienced an F4 tornado that...
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    what is today northern Mexico and the Southwest United States. In 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza led an expedition north from Mexico City. He caught glimpse of...
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    the Spanish invasion, narrated by him in 1570 to Spanish missionary Fray Marcos García and transcribed by Martín de Pando, his mestizo assistant.: 12 ...
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    using the information gained by the scouting expeditions of Esterban and Fray Marcos, set out to conquer Cíbola. Coronado and his band of over one thousand...
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    1528, Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Estevanico, and Fray Marcos de Niza survived a shipwreck off the Texas coast. Captured by Native...
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  • City / Town Population Florida 33,639 Sarandí Grande 6,130 Casupá 2,402 Fray Marcos 2,398 Veinticinco de Mayo 1,852 Veinticinco de Agosto 1,849 Alejandro...
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    39015024850227. OCLC 2651957. Farnum, Mabel (1943). "The Seven Golden Cities" [Fray Marcos and the Coronado Adventure]. HathiTrust Digital Library. Milwaukee, Wisconsin:...
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    líneas de los Incas y de los Scyris, señores del Cuzco, y del Quito," by Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan who accompanied Sebastián Benalcázar's conquest...
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  • talk about fabulous cities somewhere in the North American Southwest. Fray Marcos de Niza enthusiastically identified these as the mythologized Seven Cities...
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