Marcos de Niza, OFM (or Marco da Nizza; c. 1495 – 25 March 1558) was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy. Marcos...

Marcos de Niza High School is a high school located in Tempe, Arizona. It was founded in 1971 and it has an enrollment of approximately 1,500 students...

Niza may refer to: Spanish for the city of Nice, France Niza, Croatia, a village near Koška Niiza, Saitama, Japan Marcos de Niza, a 16th-century Franciscan...

Mexico City, 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...

of Hernando de Alarcón. The other component traveled by land, along the trail on which Friar Marcos de Niza had followed Esteban. Vázquez de Coronado and...

castaways' tales, Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza organized an expedition headed by the Franciscan friar Marcos de Niza, who took Estevanico as his guide....

heavily armed, and far more cautious. 1540-1542 with Marcos de Niza's tales in mind, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado began the most ambitious expedition. Fears...

presence in the state were the Spanish. In 1539 Marcos de Niza explored the area, followed by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado the following year. Spanish missionaries...

MINING HISTORY Area History "Marcos de Niza | Spanish explorer | Britannica". Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marcos de Niza". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th...

a home and a warm bed, but I was never happy." She graduated from Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona. Parker majored in drama at the University...

years old and immediately began working in a youth theater. He attended Marcos De Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona, as well as El Segundo High School and...

was conceived by Dr. A.J. Chandler and subsequently named for Fray Marcos de Niza, the first European to enter the Salt River Valley in 1512. The hotel...

Alexandria Mark of Lisbon (Marcos da Silva), Portuguese Franciscan friar and historian Marcos de Niza, Spanish Franciscan friar Marcos de Torres y Rueda, Spanish...

Spanish party to the Pueblo tribes as a scout for the expedition of Fray Marcos de Niza. Early anthropologist, Frederick J. Dockstader asserted that legendary...

wrestling. Kid received his education in the United States and wrestled at Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona, capturing three state championships (with...

final destination for the quest. The game also gives an explanation why Marcos de Niza lied about the location of the cities even though he really did find...

football. He starred at Chandler High School after transferring from Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, earning five star recruiting honors from Rivals...

on to be recruited to play college basketball. After graduating from Marcos De Niza High School , Warren entered the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia...

Seven Cities of Gold. Friar Marcos de Niza, a member of the sect, had been part of a failed expedition led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to find the city...

attract thousands of tourists each year. [citation needed] In 1539, Marcos de Niza, a Spanish Franciscan, became the first European to contact Native Americans...

a slave, was the first non-Indian to visit Acoma and reported it to Marcos de Niza, who related the information to the viceroy of New Spain after the end...

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; most...

interpretaciones sobre 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...

been confirmed: "Las dos líneas de los Incas y de los Scyris, señores del Cuzco, y del Quito," by Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan who accompanied Sebastián...

about fabulous cities somewhere in the North American Southwest. Fray Marcos de Niza enthusiastically identified these as the mythologized Seven Cities of...

(Pachacuti). In the 18th century the priest Juan de Velasco, using as a source a work by Marcos de Niza, whose existence has not been confirmed, compiled...

Mexico City. In 1539, Estevanico was one of four men who accompanied Marcos de Niza as a guide in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, preceding...

missionary of Scotland Marcos de Niza – French Franciscan missionary who accompanied Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Roberto de Nobili – Jesuit missionary...

or seasonal village, called Sonoitac. In 1539, Spanish explorer Fray Marcos de Niza entered the area near Lochiel on the Mexican border. He continued on...

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 Sex...