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    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈβaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer...
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    conquistador attached to the exploits of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Expeditions, including one led by Pedro de Tovar, had heard reports of a large river...
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  • induced Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to organize a large-scale entrada under the leadership of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Marcos served as a guide...
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  • (Hawikuh Ruins) conquered by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado One of the Seven Cities of Gold, the Spanish legend that Coronado tracked to Hawikuh The Zuni-Cibola...
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    Juan Vázquez de Coronado y Anaya (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwam ˈbaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1523 – 1565) was a Spanish conquistador, remembered especially...
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  • Coronado may refer to: Coronado (surname) Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510–1554), Spanish explorer often referred to simply as "Coronado" Coronado...
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    It was fought in the winter of 1540-41 by the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen Pueblos of what would become...
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    governor of Costa Rica, Juan Vázquez de Coronado, nephew of the famous explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Vázquez de Coronado was created on 15 November...
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    Johnson Elementary school is closed. Coronado High is named for Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, whose expeditions in what is now the...
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    and observance as related to the entrada of North America by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540. The commemorative exposition was a 400th anniversary...
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    explorers, such as the conquistadores Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, as they searched unsuccessfully for the lost gold city...
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  • Francisco Vázquez may refer to: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (c. 1510–1554), Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez Gómez (1860–1933), Mexican personal...
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  • and Pacific oceans. Viceroy of New Spain Antonio de Mendoza commissioned Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to undertake a massive overland expedition to find...
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  • SS Francisco Coronado was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. The ship was named after Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján...
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    Huachuca Mountains (category Coronado National Forest)
    border and includes Montezuma Pass, a possible entry point of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado into what is now Arizona in 1540. The range extends a short...
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  • Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador) Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Juan Vázquez de Coronado Hernán...
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    had a son Francisco Martín de Alcántara, who was at the conquest of Peru with his half-brother from its inception. Through his father, Francisco was a second...
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  • Hernando de Alvarado (d. 1540s), was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, lieutenant under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and artillery officer in his...
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    The Painted Desert was named by a Spanish expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado during his 1540 quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola. He...
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    orders from the conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain García López de Cárdenas, along with Hopi...
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    The first written account of pemmican is considered to be Francisco Vázquez de Coronado records from 1541, of the Querechos and Teyas, traversing the...
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    Zuni Pueblo and called it Cibola. However, when conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado finally arrived at Cíbola in 1540, he discovered that the stories...
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  • the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540–41, and began to be settled by Spanish colonists after the expedition of Juan de Oñate in 1598. By...
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  • Pedro de Tovar comes in contact with the Hopi people at Oraibi as part of the expedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado 1541 – Hernando de Soto discovers...
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    of the Seven Cities of Gold (Seven Cities of Cibola) led to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition of 1540 across the New Mexico territory. This became...
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    on July 16, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2019. Borrens, Lobby. "Francisco Vázquez de Coronado expedition to arizona". History. Archived from the original...
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    mission. It was visited in the 16th century by members of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's exploratory expedition. In the 1930s, Hopi artist Fred Kabotie...
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    Spanish) in 1542 and then went on to Texas. Shortly before, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition left Mexico in search of the Seven Golden Cities...
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    1540 to 1542 with the arrival of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador. In that same period, Hernando de Soto crossed a west-northwest direction...
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    the care of specialists in interpreting them. It is known that Viceroy Francisco de Toledo sent King Philip II four cloths illustrating the life of the Incas...
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