Pedro de Medina (1493 – Seville, 1567) was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. His well-known Arte de navegar ("The Art of Navigation"...
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the Medina Sidonias House of Olivares House of Guzmán House of Medina Sidonia [1] BOE DE MEDINA, Pedro (b. 1503), Crónica de los Duques de Medina Sidonia...
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services to farmers and ranchers. The Medina River was named after Pedro de Medina, a Spanish cartographer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila...
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encounter the river. Because Pedro de Medina derived his surname from the Andalusian city of Medina-Sidonia, the name Medina comes from the Arabic for city...
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The House of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: Casa de Medina Sidonia) is a Spanish noble house originating from the crown of Castile, whose name comes from the...
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reproduced almost verbatim in the Libro of Spanish historian Pedro de Medina (1548). Medina gives the island's dimensions as 87 leagues in length and 28...
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and French pilots learned to navigate from the texts of Pedro de Medina, Martín Fernández de Enciso and Martín Cortés, among others. The conjunction of...
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Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo y Palafox, 12th Marquess of Molina, 13th Marquess of Villafranca (11 May 1803 in Madrid – 10 January 1867 in Madrid)...
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Pedro de Alcántara Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Lopez-Pacheco, 14th Duke of Medina Sidonia (Madrid, 25 August 1724 – Vilafranca del Penedès, 6 January 1779)...
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Medina de Rioseco is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León and Spain. According to a 2011...
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observations of Amerigo Vespucci and Andrea Corsali, as well as the report of Pedro de Medina. Uranometria contains many more stars than did any previous star atlas...
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"cosmographers") in the Casa de Contratación working on the Padrón Real included Alonso de Santa Cruz, Sebastian Cabot, and Pedro de Medina. The mapmaker Diego...
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Hadley Upland (redirect from Mount Medina)
by FIDS, 1958. Named by UK-APC after Pedro de Medina (1493-1567), Spanish Cosmographer Royal, who wrote Arte de Navegar (Valladolid, 1545), an important...
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(born 1982) Sol de Medina y Orléans-Bragança, Countess of Ampurias (born 1986), married Pedro Domínguez-Manjón y Toro (of the Barons de Gracia Real) on...
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new edition enlarged on the basis of the 1574 Spanish edition 1581: Pedro de Medina, Art of Navigation Beecher, Donald (2006), "John Frampton of Bristol...
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Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y de Guzmán-Zúñiga, 6th Duke of Medina Sidonia (24 March 1502 – 26 November 1558) was the son of Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd...
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1595 by Diego Perez de Messa, many years after Pedro de Medina's death), Casa de Iuan Gracian, Alcalá de Henares. PALENCIA, Alfonso de – Gesta Hispaniensia...
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Pedro Hernandez, convicted in the Disappearance of Etan Patz Pedro López (serial killer), Colombian serial killer Pedro Medina, Cuban murderer Pedro Pablo...
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3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia. When his brother-in-law Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 4th Duke of Medina Sidonia, died in 1512 without issue, Pedro Girón unsuccessfully...
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Pedro Medina Avendaño (14 September 1915 – 31 August 2012) was a Colombian lawyer and poet, author of the Anthem of Bogotá and the Anthem of Boyacá, he...
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"theoretical or scientific navigation". In 1545, Pedro de Medina published the influential Arte de navegar. The book was translated into French, Italian...
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1,280 sq mi (3,315 km2) Medina County 325 Hondo 1848 Bexar County The Medina River, named for Spanish engineer Pedro de Medina 54,797 1,328 sq mi (3,440 km2)...
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de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado (1768–1841) Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 17th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1803–1867) This...
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Pedro Henrique Konzen Medina da Silva (born 16 June 1990), commonly referred to as Pedro Henrique, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as...
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Manuel Medina (March 31, 1968 – February 14, 2017) was a Dominican broadcast journalist and host for the FM radio station 103.5 HICC in San Pedro de Macorís...
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"cosmographers") in the Casa de Contratación working on the Padrón General included Alonso de Santa Cruz, Sebastian Cabot, and Pedro de Medina. Mapmaker Diego Gutiérrez...
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Plaza Pedro de Medina Cristóbal de Mesa Juan de Morales Francisco Pacheco Pedro de Padilla Hortensio Félix Paravicino y Arteaga Manuel Pellicer de Velasco...
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referred to Niebla some years later, in El Panegírico al Duque de Lerma (1618). Pedro de Medina referred to it as one of the best and most imposing of all...
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Council of Castile (redirect from Consejos de Castilla)
Antonio de Rojas and replacing him with Juan Pardo de Tavera, the Archbishop of Santiago. He also added three new councilors, Juan Manuel, Pedro de Medina, and...
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Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, GE (21 August 1936 – 7 March 2008) was the holder of the Dukedom of Medina Sidonia in Spain...
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