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Juan de Esquivel (c. 1480 – c. 1513) was a Spanish colonist and first governor of the Colony of Santiago, now Jamaica.
In 1509 Juan de Esquivel founded the first permanent European settlement, the town of Sevilla la Nueva (New Seville), on the north coast. In 1534 the capital was moved to Villa de la Vega (later Santiago de la Vega), now called Spanish Town. The Spanish enslaved many….
Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage (1494) and assisted Nicolás de Ovando in the conquest of Hispaniola.
Juan de Esquivel (about 1480 - about 1513) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator (a Conquistador). He conquered and governed the island of Jamaica for Spain. He was born in Seville, Spain, about 1480. He came with Nicolás de Ovando to America, to the Hispaniola island, in 1502.
Juan [de] Esquivel Barahona (c. 1560 – after 1623) was the most prominent of the last generation of Spanish church composers of the Renaissance era. Although he never served in one of the major Spanish cathedrals, his music was known throughout Spain during the early seventeenth century.
Biografía de Juan de Esquivel, natural de Sevilla, que participó en las guerras del Higuey en la isla Española y fundó Sevilla la Nueva en Jamaica. Conoce sus hazañas, sus alianzas con los caciques indígenas y su papel en la conquista de las Antillas.
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Summary. THE KNOWN FACTS OF ESQUIVEL'S LIFE ARE FEW: we do not even know the date of his birth. The amount of contemporary documentary evidence available to us is slender and sometimes conflicting, and has led to much speculation on the part of later scholars.
