After Constantinople, first settled by Greeks as Byzantium, fell to the Ottomans, many Greeks joined the Spanish army as Conquistadors.

THE RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITHOUT FEAR. THE REASONING FOR SUCH EMOTIONAL RESPONSES FROM RESIDENTS IS BECAUSE OF THE MAN THE STATUE REPRESENTS. JUAN DEL NORTE WAS A CONQUISTADOR ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

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Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the fort ...

Statues of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate are now in storage after demonstrators in New Mexico threatened to topple them. Protesters in California have pulled down sculptures of Spanish ...

Reporting from SANTA FE, N.M. — Civic leaders in New Mexico’s capital city turned the page Friday on a grinding dispute over the annual reenactment of a 17th century conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe ...

Protests after the death of George Floyd have led Americans to question statues, monuments and other landmarks with ties to a racist past. Alongside symbols of the Confederacy, protesters have also ...