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    Castilla de Oro or del Oro (Spanish: [kasˈtiʎa ðe ˈoɾo]) was the name given by the Spanish settlers at the beginning of the 16th century to the Central...
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  • Castile (redirect from Castilla)
    the north Castilla–La Mancha, in the south Castile, New York Castile (village), New York Castilla District, Piura Province, Peru Castilla de Oro, name given...
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    Pedro Arias de Ávila as governor of the newly created province of Castilla de Oro. Arias, better known as Pedrarias Dávila and who would later become...
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    de Córdoba, a.k.a. Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, the diversion from New Governor of Castilla del Oro since 1526, now, more or less Panamá, Pedro de...
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  • 1508–1511 Diego de Nicuesa 1511–1514 Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1534–1536 Felipe Gutiérrez y Toledo (The Governorate of Castilla del Oro was established in...
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    this circumstance, the area of the previous territorial division, Castilla de Oro, was split into two separated parts. The western part, from the Gulf...
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    1508 after royal decree to separate the colonial governorships of Castilla de Oro and Nueva Andalucía, using the River Atrato as the boundary between...
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  • Acla was a Spanish colonial town founded by order of the Governor of Castilla de Oro, Pedrarias Dávila, in 1515. It was located on the central coastline...
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  • of New Andalucia (Colombia) 1510 to Alonso de Ojeda Governorate of Castilla de Oro 1513 to Pedro Arias Dávila Governorate of Pánuco. Its ill-defined territory...
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    escudo de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla–La Mancha es partido. En el primer cuartel, en campo de gules un castillo de oro almenado, aclarado de azur...
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    following year, Pedro Arias Dávila became the newly appointed governor of Castilla de Oro and succeeded Balboa. During the next five years, Pizarro became a...
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    administrative Spanish colonial duties in Santo Domingo and visiting Castilla de Oro. The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado'...
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    territories were further unified in May 1513 with the Governorate of Castilla de Oro. Colonial Venezuela Governorate of New Andalusia (1534-1549) — in colonial...
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  • (1498–1537) Governorate of New Andalusia (1501–1513) Governorate of Castilla de Oro (1514–1539) Governorate of New Castile (1529–1542) Governorate of New...
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  • Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland. In 1510 he founded the colony of Nombre de...
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    governorships of Castilla de Oro and Nueva Andalucía, using the River Atrato as the boundary between the two governorships. Vasco Núñez de Balboa heard of...
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  • separating them. In 1540 the western part, together with territories from Castilla de Oro, became the Province of Nuevo Cartago y Costa Rica within the Spanish...
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    next decade, he remained in Castilla de Oro. Xerez explored the Isthmus of Panama along with Vasco Nuñez de Balboa and Gaspar de Espinosa. As one of the first...
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    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ; c. 1488/90/92 – after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the...
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    half-brother, Fernando, by Beatriz Enríquez de Arana. Diego Columbus was taught by Christopher Columbus's mistress, Beatriz De Arana, until he transferred to the...
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    the Real Audiencia of Panama during the 16th century, then part of Castilla de Oro, with its capital in Panama, during the 17th century, and after independence...
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    from Castilla de Oro, and included the territory of the Kingdom of Nicoya, since it was requested to establish whether the territory of the Villa de Bruselas...
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    María la Antigua del Darién in Castilla de Oro (now Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia), settled by Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1510. In 1513, Balboa...
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    of Pedrarias Davila who had received a royal appointment to govern Castilla de Oro, a new Spanish colony in Central America. Montejo was sent on ahead...
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  • Nicaragua in 1522, with the permission of Pedrarias Dávila, governor of Castilla de Oro, but was driven back to his ships by the Chorotega and the Nicarao...
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    part of Panama. The second was the Pacific coast that had constituted Castilla de Oro, namely from the Gulf of Nicoya on the west to the borders of the Duchy...
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    de Castilla, actriz y cantante". YouTube. Retrieved 25 June 2014.[dead YouTube link] "Murió a los 90 años Rosa de Castilla, actriz de la Época de Oro...
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  • degree and was counselor to Emperor Charles V. Later he was alcalde of Castilla de Oro, in Central America. After the criminal disaster of the first Real...
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  • Pedro de los Ríos y Gutiérrez de Aguayo (died 1547) was a Spanish colonial administrator who succeeded Pedrarias Dávila as governor of Castilla del Oro (1526–1529)...
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    Santa María de La Antigua del Darién was originally located upriver from the mouth of the Atrato River on the Gulf of Urabá in the Castilla de Oro province...
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