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Marcos de Niza High School is a high school located in Tempe, Arizona. It was founded in 1971 and it has an enrollment of approximately 1,900 students. The school's mascot is the Padre.
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Marcos de Niza, OFM (or Marco da Nizza; c. 1495 – 25 March 1558) was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy. Marcos led the first Spanish expedition to explore what is now the American Southwest.
Marcos de Niza 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.
May 16, 2017 · The Coronado Expedition relied on testimony from a Franciscan Priest named Fray Marcos de Niza. He claimed to have glimpsed a golden city that he described as larger than Teotihuacan in what is now New Mexico.
May 1, 1995 · Marcos de Niza, a controversial Franciscan explorer, may have led the first European expedition to explore purposefully what is today the American Southwest. His report of having seen one of the Seven Cities of Cíbola in 1539 launched the first large-scale Spanish exploration of the interior of North America.
May 23, 2018 · Friar Marcos de Niza (ca. 1500-1558), Franciscan missionary in Spanish America, set the route to the fabled "Seven Cities of Cibola" for the expedition of Coronado. The birthplace of Marcos de Niza is unknown, but he was either French or Italian, probably the former.
