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Pizarro

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Pi·zar·ro  (p-zär, p-thär, -sär-), Francisco 1475?-1541.
Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru (1531-1533). He founded the city of Lima in 1535.
Pizarro [pɪˈzɑːrəʊ (Spanish) piˈθarrɔ]
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(Biographies / Pizarro, Francisco (?1475-1541) M, Spanish, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: conquistador) Francisco (franˈθisko). ?1475-1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru. He landed in Peru (1532), murdered the Inca King Atahualpa (1533), and founded Lima as the new capital of Peru (1535). He was murdered by his own followers
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Noun1.PizarroPizarro - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
Francisco Pizarro


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Did not Pizarro lead three hundred and fifty Spanish cavaliers and four thousand Indians into the far Cordilleras in search of treasure?
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Old as Pizarro, this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
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You know the first Spaniards down there, under a leader named Pizarro, were a gang of robbers and cut- throats.
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