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Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera founded the city on the left bank of the river at a spot called Suquia Quisquisacate, named for the Indians at the confluence of two rivers, in what are now the barracks of the district Yapey , northeast of the existing central area .
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Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera sirvio the royal army until 1571, when he became governor of Tucuman. Viceroy Francisco de Toledo and found him settle in the valley of Salta and the best place and appears to agree, by the Spanish people to these kingdoms of Peru is to enter those provinces without risk and danger up here, and they go out to these kingdoms to recruit and market.
When Cabrera came from Potosi in July 1572 due either to follow the directives of the Viceroy or the willingness to abide by Francisco de Aguirre (Tucuman governor and founder of Santiago del Estero), who urged him to continue his plan to conquer the South, chose Cabrera latter. Although it is unknown why this decision. The issue of more than a hundred men, treads the ground cordobes June 24 1573. The original territory was inhabited by aboriginal Comechingones, who lived in communities called Ayllus.
They found that a river called San Juan Cabrera (Suquia today), since the June 24 is the day of that saint. Cordoba was founded on July 6 of that year under the name of the New Andalusia Cordova, possibly in tribute to the ancestors of his wife, originally from the eponymous Spanish. The foundation took place on the left bank of the river at a spot called Quisquisacate, named for the Indians at the confluence of two rivers, in what today are the banks of the Yapey district, northeast of the existing central area. Cabrera, at the same time, he tilled the founding act of the scribe Francisco Torres and determined the arms of the city .
Cabrera sought two objectives. One of them was to have an exit to the “North Sea”, ie the Atlantic Ocean, as it believed that the Laguna Mar Chiquita is a bay of the ocean, and also attempt to found a city on the banks of the Parana river. The second objective was the fabulous City of the Caesars.
Cordova from Karduba (contraction Kart Juba, “The city of Juba). That this original settlement in Spain, was so christened by the Carthaginian general Amilcar Barca in honor of a general Numida named Juba, who fought and died in battle in the region around the year 230 BC
The town must be on a gold background, a castle round stone color, with one tower and battlements, two rivers of dark blue and on each side of the castle, three national flags of both ends . For Ringer, one of two flag points, till golden, whose color comes from iron in the interior of the shield and is supported by the castle tower.
First layout of the city in 1577 by Don Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa.
According to data from historical archives, after 4 years of the city founded in 1577, the authorities once removed Aboriginal resolved Cordova moving to another room Suquia River, and the then Lieutenant Governor Don Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa stroke to the forefront of the city, 70 blocks. The paper gives an account of a town with 10 blocks long and seven wide. In the image can be seen that the plots were divided into four. This regia for the neighbors, as the land of religious orders were not divided.
In 1580 construction began on the Cathedral of Cordova, completed in 1758. In 1599, it installs the religious order of Jesuits, thus Cordova became the central task of the evangelization of Jesus. The religious order founded in 1608 and in 1610 the Novitiate College Maximo which results in 1613 the University of Cordova (now National University of Cordoba), the fourth oldest in America. In 1622 the office began to function Seca. In 1671 was consecrated the Church of the Compania de Jesus . Then in 1687, Ignacio Duarte Quiros and founded the National Association of Montserrat. During the so-called first period (1687-1767), the College was governed by the Jesuit priests. In 1699, Cordova became the seat of the Bishop of Tucuman. In this way, the city is the administrative, religious and educational advancement of the region .
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According to a report of the town, the population of the city in January 1760 amounted to 22,000 inhabitants, of whom 1500 were Spanish and the remaining were divided into mestizos, mulattoes and blacks. New York households are paying less for energy because they are turning to cutting energy costs. It is assumed that the population was