Pedrarias Dávila was one such winner.

In 1526, Pedrarias was superseded as Governor of Panama by Pedro de los Ríos, and retired to León in Nicaragua, where he was named its new governor on July 1, 1527.

After Pascual de Andagoya, a Spanish-Basque conquistador under the direction of Panama governor Pedrarias Dávila, founded Panama City in 1519, Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.

It is worth noting that Maria Ortiz Cota, the mother of ruthless Governor Pedrarias or Pedro Arias, was the daughter of " converso " Toledo family member and Royal Treasurer Alonso Cota, deceased 1468, married to a certain Teresa Ortiz, their children being known however as " Ortiz Cota " at the " Portuguese family style ", whereby in Spanish succession style would have been known as " Cota Ortiz " and in the rest of European countries as " Cota " only.

Bernal tells first how he, like the other restless 110 Spaniards who lived in Castilla del Oro, decided to ask permission of Pedrarias to travel to Cuba, and that Pedrarias granted this willingly, because in Tierra Firma " there was nothing to conquer, that every thing was peaceful, that Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Pedrarias's son-in-law, had conquered it ".

Cordoba was an officer of Pedro Arias Dávila, known also as Pedrarias Dávila.

During the first fifty years of Conquest, Nicoya was of great local importance as a transshipment point between the more active Spanish colonies in Nicaragua and Panama ; a staging area and breadbasket for the initial entradas ( initial forays ) into the interior of Costa Rica by Juan Vázquez de Coronado ; and a rich encomienda ( source of tribute ) for the governor of Nicaragua, Pedrarias Dávila and his family ( Peralta 1883 ; Melendez 1983 ).

Almagro arrived in the New World on June 30, 1514, under the expedition that Ferdinand II of Aragon had sent under the guidance of Pedrarias Dávila.

He sailed to Tierra Firme with the expedition led by Pedrarias Davila in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there.

Was founded in 1524 by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, it is situated 30 km from the modern city, is a World Heritage Site and in this is buried its founder, in a crypt, beneath his statue along with other characters including Pedrarias Dávila his murderer.

Pedrarias superseded him, promised him his daughter, known as " María de Peñalosa ", to honour thus her female ancestors, something by not means uncommon between the High Spanish Nobility at the time, in wedlock, but afterwards had him judicially murdered, January 1519, being thus a potential bridegroom but never a son in law.

Governor Pedrarias sent Gil González Dávila to explore northward, and in 1524 Francisco Hernández de Córdoba to settle that region ( present day Nicaragua ).

Cantera Burgos, Francisco: Pedrarias Dávila y Cota, capitán general y gobernador de Castilla del Oro y Nicaragua: sus antecedentes judíos.

On August 15, 1519, Pedrarias, having abandoned Santa María la Antigua del Darién, moved the capital of Castilla del Oro with all its organizational institutions to the Pacific Ocean's coast and founded Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá ( present day Panama City ), the first European settlement on the shores of the Pacific.

Governor Pedrarias began building intercontinental and trans-isthmian portage routes, such as the " Camino Real " and " Camino de Cruces ", linking Panama City and the Pacific with Nombre de Dios ( and later with “ Portobelo ”) and the Atlantic, making possible the establishment of a trans-atlantic system of Treasure Fleets and trade.

Pedrarias Dávila ( Pedro Arias de Ávila ) y Ortiz de Cota ( Segovia, Castile, c. 1440 –

Mena García, Carmen: Pedrarias Dávila o la Ira de Dios: una historia olvidada.

Los testamentos de Pedrarias Dávila, gobernador de Castilla del Oro y Nicaragua.

* Hernando de Soto's activity with Pedrarias Dávila in Panama

Around this time, the news of the discovery of the New World had reached him, and he decided to enroll himself in the armada of Pedrarias Dávila.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

It was here that the terror-stricken Dennis Moon played an unrehearsed role during the children's party.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

He was a fighter for those of his own party.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

The x-ray diffraction pattern of the material, taken with CuK**ya radiation, indicated the presence of no extra lines and was in good agreement with the pattern of Douglass.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

But I had the proof, all documented in a legal agreement which I would show her the moment I was free to do so.

The Princess said it was too early to say what would be decided if no agreement was reached after three days.

An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.