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Cieza De León
Cieza can refer to: * Pedro Cieza de León, primary source historian of Incan Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest. * Cieza, Murcia, a municipality of autonomous community of Murcia, Spain * Cieza, Cantabria Cieza is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population inf ..., a municipality of autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Cieza De León
Pedro Cieza de León ( Llerena, Spain c. 1518 or 1520 – Seville, Spain July 2, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru and Popayán. He is known primarily for his extensive work, ''Crónicas del Perú'' (The Chronicle of Peru), which has been a source of knowledge for centuries for different disciplines such as history, philology, geography, biology, anthropology, botany and zoology. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Early life His father, Lope de León, was a shopkeeper in the town, and his mother, Leonor de Cazalla, was a native of Llerena. There is scant documentary evidence of the young Cieza de León’s childhood, and little is known of his early life before his voyage to the Americas. Given the fact that he left home at 13, it is unlikely that Cieza de León received more than a rudimentary education. In 1536, in Córdoba, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cieza, Murcia
Cieza () is a town and municipality in Spain, in the autonomous community of Murcia. It is the capital of the Vega Alta ''comarca'', an old form of provincial subdivision). Its current population consisted of 34,889 inhabitants in the year 2018. The Segura River passes by the town. Its economy is based on agriculture, mainly in the cultivation of peaches and olives, but industry is also important, since 4,000 people work in that sector. The public sector, transport and tourism are also very important in the local economy. Main sights Populated since the Paleolithic Age, the area of Cieza is home to archaeological excavations in the such as and La Serreta; and Barranco de los Grajos. There are also Iberian remains (found at Bolvax), as well as Roman, Visigothic, and Arabic deposits. The Arabs, who inhabited the area from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and who knew the area as ''Medina Siyâsa'', left behind a mountain fortress. At the dig site of Medina Siyâsa, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
