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    Juan de Castellanos (March 9, 1522 – November 1606) was a Spanish poet, soldier and Catholic priest who lived in the New Kingdom of Granada. As one of...
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    ISBN 978-1-57607-027-7. Juan de Castellanos (1857). Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias. M. Rivadeneyra. p. 365. Fué de Madrid hidalgo conocido, De noble parentela...
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  • concept of kings, with contemporary writers such as Juan de Castellanos and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés employing the title of Rey Agüeybana...
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    Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Madrid 1959. Juan de Castellanos: Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias. Bogotá...
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    Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias is an epic poem written in the late sixteenth century by Juan de Castellanos. The work gives a detailed account of...
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    conquistadors, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada; Spanish poet, soldier, and priest Juan de Castellanos (16th century); bishop Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita and Franciscan...
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    Escuela Superior de Administración Pública E.S.A.P. Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) Fundacion Universitaria Juan de Castellanos Corporación...
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    Ocampo López, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Juan de Castellanos and conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada who was the European making first...
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    been described by the chroniclers Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita and Pedro Simón. Huitaca...
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  • Juan Castellanos (born 7 January 1975) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in one match for the Venezuela national football team in 1997. He was...
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    colonists Francisco Robledo and Juan de Castellanos. In 1510, this production had a value of 255 gold pesos. Robledo and Castellanos not only had rights over...
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    conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and soldier Juan de Castellanos in the 16th century and by bishop Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita and friar Pedro...
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    contributed to the knowledge of the Chibcha language include Juan de Castellanos, Bernardo de Lugo, José Domingo Duquesne and Ezequiel Uricoechea. The Muysca...
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    Dorado, by poet-priest and historian of the Conquest Juan de Castellanos, who had served under Jiménez de Quesada in his campaign against the Muisca, written...
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    record of the potato is as late as 1537, by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Castellanos, and it spread quite slowly throughout Europe from thereon. So the...
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    Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Vol. II, Libro 24, CapitulosII – IV. Madrid 1959, S. 388–399. Juan de Castellanos: Elegías...
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  • comes from the works Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (1589) and El Carnero (1638), by Juan de Castellanos and Juan Rodríguez Freyle respectively...
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    writers include Juan de Castellanos (Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias), Hernando Domínguez Camargo and his epic poem to San Ignacio de Loyola, Pedro...
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  • Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Madrid 1959. Juan de Castellanos: Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias. Bogotá...
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  • American actor Juan de Castellanos, 16th-century Colombian poet Julio Castellanos (1905–1947), Mexican painter and engraver Lincoln A. Castellanos, American...
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    children were sacrificed secretly in Laguna de Urao, Mérida. This was chronicled by Juan de Castellanos, who described the feasts and human sacrifices...
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    Jiménez de Quesada, main conquistador, and scholars Pedro de Aguado, Juan Rodríguez Freyle, Juan de Castellanos, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita...
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    been provided by chroniclers Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Pedro Simón, Juan de Castellanos, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita and others. The Muzo were inhabiting...
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    conquest and early colonisation Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Pedro Simón, Juan de Castellanos and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, 20th and 21st century anthropology...
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    inspired by the 16th-century poems of Juan de Castellanos. The second book, El país de la canela, tells of Francisco de Orellana's first trip along the Amazon...
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  • language. De la Cadena and other Spanish authors who set the action of their poems on Cubagua island, like Juan de Castellanos (author of the Elegías de varones...
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    Tisquesusa originates from the work Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias written by poet Juan de Castellanos decades after the events of the conquest....
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  • first half of the 16th century have been described by scholars Juan de Castellanos, and Juan Rodríguez Freyle in his work El Carnero. Maldonado was born...
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  • point. Another Spanish author, Juan de Castellanos, offers a romanticized version of the events, where both Ponce de León and Agüeybana II rallied their...
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  • river "Uyapari" was associated with the village. The chronicler Juan de Castellanos, in his famous Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies, describes...
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