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Tinerfe (genus)
Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey (aboriginal king) of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is estimated that he lived at the end of the 14th century. He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castile. Tinerfe the Great lived in Adeje (like all his predecessors), approximately hundred years before the conquest of 1494. Upon Tinerfe's death, his sons divided the island into nine kingdoms. At the time of the conquest the kings of these kingdoms were: *Acaimo or Acaymo (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Tacoronte). *Adjona: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Abona). *Añaterve: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Güímar). *Bencomo: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Taoro). *Beneharo: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Anaga). * Pelicar: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Icode). * Pelinor: (mencey (''king'') of Menceyato de Adeje). * Romen: (mencey (''king'') of Mencey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statue El Gran Tinerfe Fcm
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Menceyato De Taoro
Taoro was one of nine Guanche menceyatos (native kingdoms) in which the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) was divided at the time of the arrival of the conquering Spaniards. Taoro was considered the most powerful aboriginal kingdom on the island. It spanned the existing municipalities of Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, La Victoria de Acentejo, La Matanza de Acentejo, Los Realejos and Santa Úrsula. Its ''mencey'' (King) at the time of the Spanish arrival was Bencomo and the final mencey was Bentor, who ruled the kingdom from November 1495 until his suicide in February 1496. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Torriani
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Tomás Arias Marín De Cubas
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Tomás may refer to: * Tomás (given name) * Tomás (surname) Tomás is a Spanish and Portuguese surname, equivalent of ''Thomas''. It may refer to: * Antonio Tomás (born 1985), professional Spanish footballer * Belarmino Tomás (1892–1950), Asturian trade unionist and socialist politician * Fray Tomás ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Núñez De La Peña
Juan Núñez de la Peña (May 1641 – January 3, 1721) was a Spanish historian. Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, he studied Latin and the humanities in the college of San Agustín de La Laguna and was subsequently ordained priest. He worked in Toledo as a notary before returning to the Canary Islands. There he began to compile and preserve for posterity municipal, notarial, and ecclesiastic documents that allowed him to write a history of the islands, called ''Conquista y antigüedades de las islas de la Gran Canaria y su descripción, con muchas advertencias de sus privilegios, conquistadores, pobladores y otras particularidades en la muy poderosa isla de Tenerife, dirigido a la milagrosa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria''. This work was published in 1676, with a second edition with corrections published three years later. In it, he examined the Guanche people The Guanches were the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean some we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menceyato De Tegueste
Tegueste was one of nine Guanches, Guanche menceyatos (native kingdoms), which ruled Tenerife on the Canary Islands before the Castilian conquest. It occupied the whole extent of the current municipality of Tegueste along with other sites that today are part of the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The menceyato's rulers were the Guanche kings Tegueste I, Tegueste (mencey), Tegueste II and Teguaco. (Trad.Spa :"''La conquista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegueste (mencey)
Tegueste or Tegueste II was a Guanche King (mencey) of Menceyato de Tegueste, reigning during the conquest of Tenerife in the fifteenth century. In 1494, with the arrival of the conquerors to the control of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, Tegueste allied itself with mencey Bencomo to reject the invasion, participating actively in the successive confrontations. The Meney Tegueste took with him about 1,200 warriors. At the beginning of 1495 a group of Castilian soldiers made an assault to the Lagoon in search of cattle. There a Guanche woman informed them of the epidemic suffered by the Guanches. The conquistadors made a recognition for the valley of Tegueste, and they made with a cattle booty in the ravine of Tejina. When they returned to La Laguna, they were surrounded by Tegueste and Zebenzuí in the place known as Las Peñuelas, where the conquerors were defeated, Gonzalo del Castillo (who directed the Castilian soldiers) was imprisoned and sent by Tegueste to Bencomo of Taoro. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menceyato De Daute and menceys were Cocanaymo and Romen.Daute was one of nine menceyatos guanches (native kingdoms) that was divided the island of Tenerife (Spain) after the death of King Tinerfe, in the period before the conquest of the islands by the Crown of Castile. Occupied by the extension of the existing municipalities of El Tanque, Los Silos, Buenavista del Norte and Santiago del Teide Santiago del Teide is a town and a municipality in the western part of the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The area of the municipality is 52.21 km², the population is 12,634 (2013). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romen (mencey)
Romen was a Guanche mencey king of Menceyato de Daute in times of the conquest of Tenerife in the fifteenth century. Reign Upon arrival of Alonso Fernández de Lugo in 1494, Romen allied with Bencomo mencey against the Spanish invasion, and its menceyato one side of war. However, some historians based in Viana, refer to ally with Bencomo refused for not wanting to submit to the king of Taoro dirigiese the rest in the race. For its part, he indicates that Viera y Clavijo, Romen would not ally with Bencomo believing their domains of the danger of distant conquerors. Finally, after successive defeats and ordered major Guanche Kings (Bencomo, Tinguaro and Bentor), Romen gave his territory in the spring of 1496 in the act known as Paz de Los Realejos. After the surrender, Romen was brought to court to be presented to the Catholic Monarchs. His end is unknown, although having belonged to a band of war the possibility he was reduced to slavery, it also being possible outside the menc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menceyato De Adeje
Adeje was one of the 9 menceyatos guanches (native kingdoms) that had divided the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) before the arrival of the conquering Spaniards and occupied the present day towns of Guía de Isora, Adeje, Santiago del Teide, as well as possibly also part of Arona, in the southwest of Tenerife. The kings of Adeje were Betzenuriya, Pelicar, Tinerfe Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey (aboriginal king) of the island of Tenerife ( Canary Islands, Spain). It is estimated that he lived at the end of the 14th century. He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the isl ... and Sunta. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelinor (mencey)
Pelinor was a Guanche mencey king of Menceyato de Adeje at the time of the conquest of Tenerife in the fifteenth century. Alongside the menceyes of Abona and Güímar, Pelinor negotiated peace around 1490 with Pedro de Vera Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ..., Governor of Gran Canaria, ratifying a treaty with Alonso Fernández de Lugo at the beginning of the conquest in 1494. Once the war ended, Pelinor was the only mencey not brought to the Peninsula to be presented to the Catholic Monarchs. As a mencey who actively supported the conquerors in the peace negotiations, he was amply rewarded by the new authorities. He received the entire ''Valle de Masca'' (Masca Valley), 30 acres of land with water on the "''Río de Chasna''" (''Valle de San Lorenzo'') and anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menceyato De Icode
Icod or Icode was one of nine menceyatos guanches (native kingdoms) that had divided the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) after the death of mencey Tinerfe. It occupied a part of the extension of the existing municipalities of El Tanque, La Guancha, Tenerife, La Guancha, Icod de los Vinos as well as part of Garachico. His last mencey was Pelinor (mencey), Pelinor. (Trad.Spa :"''La conquista e i reperti delle isole Gran Canaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
