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    Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (August 1478 – 1557), commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist....
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  • Gabriel Valdés (1919–2011), Chilean politician Germán Valdés (1915–1973), Mexican actor, singer and comedian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557)...
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    grandmother, Ponce de León was related to another notable family, the Núñez de Guzmáns; a contemporary chronicler, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, says that...
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  • observed by Spanish explorers in the Strait of Magellan. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés identified these lights with the gemstones hidden in the...
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  • kings, with contemporary writers such as Juan de Castellanos and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés employing the title of Rey Agüeybana (English:...
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  • Castilian general and statesman Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1635), Spanish military leader Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557), Castilian writer...
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    A. de C. V., México; ISBN 970-611-125-5 Historia general y natural de las Indias. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. Madrid, 1850 Relación de los...
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    The first European description was published in 1526 by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, where he discussed the skin infection and its symptoms on...
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  • family in the tradition of learning and performing areíto. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés served as royal chronicler after Martyr, and traveled to...
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    Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo (1851). José Amador de los Ríos (ed.). Historia general y natural de las Indias. Madrid: La Real Acadameia de La...
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    by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés in his work La Historia general de las Indias and by friar Bartolomé de las Casas in his book Historia de Las...
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    América ): p. 69y Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo (1851) [1535]. José Amador de los Ríos (ed.). Historia general y natural de las Indias. Madrid:...
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    The early Spanish chroniclers Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Pedro Simón, Pedro de Aguado, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and others have provided the...
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    Hill. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Madrid 1959. Juan de Castellanos: Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias...
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  • 1534) July 22 – King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506) August – Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (d. 1557) December 6 – Baldassare Castiglione...
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    describes the avocado was given by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés in his work Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias in 1526. The first written...
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    Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (category People from Palos de la Frontera)
    1514, in Seville or Triana. According to the chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, he died that year, probably at the end of September. It...
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    Gonzalo 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...
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    building depicts Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, governor of the fortress from 1533 to 1557, and author of Historia General y Natural de las Indias....
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  • to early accounts of the taíno such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' La historia general y natural de las Indias (1526), the sound produced by...
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    Arnold. Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (1991). Ferdinand and Isabella. New York: Dorset Press. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo (1870). Libro de la Cámara...
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    general de las Indias ("General History of the Indies") by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. See Parsons (below), Volume III, p. 296-292. Oviedo, not...
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  • Caribbean islands comes from the historic accounts of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and Bartolomé de las Casas (see picture to the right). The native...
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    Spanish explorer Gonzalo Fernández De Oviedo y Valdés was the first to use the word barbecoa in print in Spain in 1526 in the Diccionario de la Lengua Española...
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    Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, a Spanish explorer, was the first to use the word "barbecoa" in print in Spain in 1526 in the Diccionario de la...
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    with sacrificial human blood. The Spanish royal chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés described a chocolate drink he had seen in Nicaragua in 1528...
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    of "chorotegas", is attributed to the Spanish conqueror Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, derived from the name of two chieftains: King Huetara, chief...
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    publisher (link) Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo (1851) [1535]. José Amador de los Ríos (ed.). Historia general y natural de las Indias. Madrid:...
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    Countryman Press. 4 October 2010. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-58157-114-1. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (28 August 2006). Writing from the edge of the world: the...
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