1523, Spanish conquest of Nicaragua

                                                    The Nicaraguan unit of currency, the córdoba, is named for him


Hernández de Córdoba, under orders of Pedrarias Dávila,
         [sailed from Panama to today what is known as Nicaragua in mid-October 1523.

With two hundred men, including officers, foot soldiers and cavalry,
                                       [all embarked and crammed into four ships, or possibly three.

Francisco Fernández (Hernández) de Córdoba, conqueror of Nicaragua.
    [not to be confused with Francisco Hernández De Córdoba a conquistador of the Yucatán.
Even the Spaniards, old and modern, confuse these two conquerors,
                                                        [and even more of the foreign historians (deep confusion)

Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish soldier of fortune who came to Panama
      [and in the service of Pedrarias, he was captain of the guard at Panama City in 1519.

Pedrarias sent him to Nicaragua in 1523 and there Fernández founded
                                        [the cities of Granada and León and some villages, about nine,
like the village of Bruselas, the first European settlement
                                                                     [in what is today Costa Rica.

Legend says that Fernández was literally enchanted
                                     [by the beauty of this place and he cried "Eureka"
the famous exclamation attributed to the Greek inventor Archimedes
                                          the Eureka effect, the sudden realization of a problem's solution

Later he tried to take control of the territory of Honduras and to establish a kingdom'
                                                      [independent of Pedrarias, a kind of personal revolution…

Pedrarias came to Nicaragua, captured Fernández and after a trial, accused of treason,
                                                [the court simply has endorsed the predetermined execution.
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to be continued

* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis -CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS //
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* Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, covering an area of 129,494 square kilometres (49,998 sq mi) – or 120,254 square kilometres (46,430 sq mi) without including the surface area of its two largest lakes. 


The country is bordered to the north by Honduras, and to the south by Costa Rica; it is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the east by the Caribbean Sea.




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