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Marcos de Niza

Spanish explorer
Also known as: Fray Marcos
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Marcos de Niza (born c. 1495, Nice, Savoy [now in France]—died March 25, 1558, Mexico) was a Franciscan friar who claimed to have sighted the legendary “Seven Golden Cities of Cibola” in what is now western New Mexico. Niza went to the Americas in 1531 and served in Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. At Culiacán, Mex., he freed Indian slaves from regions to the north. Under orders from the viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, Niza and a...

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