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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (Spanish: [gonˈθalo xiˈmeneθ ðe keˈsaða]; 1509 [1] – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.
The Llotja de la Seda, seat of the Consulate of the Sea in Valencia since 1498.. The Consulate of the Sea (Catalan: Consolat de mar; pronounced [kunsuˈlad də ˈmaɾ]) was a quasi-judicial body set up in the Crown of Aragon, later to spread throughout the Mediterranean basin, to administer maritime and commercial law.
Huguet Borras drafted the Ordre judiciària de la Cort dels cònsols del mar de la ciutat de València; (judiciary Order of the Court of consuls Sea of the city of Valencia) and rewrote the Valencian customs, creating a compilation called Capítols del Consolat de mar de Mallorques (chapters of the Sea Consulate of Mallorca), documented for the ...
Guarda Mayor del Rey, (the King's main guard), Senor de Quintanilla y Espinosilla, Mayor of Burgos died 1549. Lopez de la Cadena, Alberto Omero (Summer 2002). Our Secret Heritage, Crypto-Jews of South Texas. HaLapid. Marroquin, Jose Maria, Gonzalez Obregon, Luis (1900). La Ciudad de Mexico. Vol. 2.
The Torres Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada were constructed as part of the urbanization project in the late 1960s and 1970s. [2] They are locates in the centre of Bogotá; the locality La Candelaria . The complex of the five residential towers, each 72 metres (236 ft) in height, consists of 390 apartments, next to the Universidad de los Andes . [ 3 ]
Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as Quezada, [7] (c. 1515 – 1544) was a Spanish conquistador. Second in command of the army of his elder brother, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada , Hernán was part of the first European expedition towards the inner highlands of the Colombian Andes .
While in New York, de Quesada came in contact with Martí after attending several rallies for Cuban exiles. In 1900 he became Special Commissioner of Cuba to the United States. During 1901 he was a member of the Cuban Constitutional Convention. Entering the diplomatic service, he became minister to the United States and, from 1912, to Germany.
In 1895, he returned to Cuba and from 1895 to 1898 he fought in the War of Independence, becoming a teniente coronel (lieutenant colonel) and the revolutionary post of governor of the Province of Santiago de Cuba. Former Cuban embassy and residence of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada in Washington, D.C.