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    Pedro Arias de Ávila (1440 – 6 March 1531; often Pedro Arias Dávila) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator. He led the first great Spanish...
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    córdoba in his memory. Córdoba was an officer of Pedro Arias Dávila, known also as Pedrarias Dávila.: 43  Hernán Cortés and Hernán Ponce de León supported...
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    of Panama was founded on 15 August 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the...
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    Ferdinand II assigned Pedro Arias Dávila as Royal Governor. He arrived in June 1514 with a 19 vessels and 1,500 men. In 1519, Dávila founded Panama City...
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    In 1548 he married Isabel Arias-Dávila, the daughter of Captain Gaspar Arias-Dávila, and a first cousin to Pedrarias Dávila, both of whom were amongst...
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  • González Dávila (died 1543), Governor of Santiago (Jamaica) c. 1533/1534 Pedro Arias Dávila (1440s–1531), Governor of Panama from 1514 to 1526 and Governor of...
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    Córdoba was later publicly beheaded for having defied his superior, Pedro Arias Dávila.: 35  Córdoba's tomb and remains were discovered in 2000 in the ruins...
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    conquistador and politician. He participated in the expedition of Pedro Arias Dávila to Darién and was appointed mayor of Santa María la Antigua del Darién...
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    crossing of the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific. The following year, Pedro Arias Dávila became the newly appointed governor of Castilla de Oro and succeeded...
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    Francisco Pizarro (1509–10) Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, Pedro Arias Dávila (1513) Francisco Pizarro, Pascual de Andagoya, Diego de Almagro, Bartolomé...
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