Synonyms:
Cordoba, Cordova
Meaning: a city in central Argentina; site of a university founded in 1613
Synonyms:
Cordoba, Cordova
Meaning: a city in southern Spain; center of Moorish culture
Synonyms:
Cordoba, Francisco_Fernandez_Cordoba, Cordova, Francisco_Fernandez_de_Cordova
Meaning: Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526)
Usage examples
He found Gonzalvo of Cordova posted with his army on the left bank of the Garigliano, either to invest the place or to repulse re-enforcements that might arrive for it.
The French and the Spaniards, D'Aubigny and Gonzalvo of Cordova, at first gave their attention to nothing but establishing themselves firmly, each in the interests of the king his master, in those portions of the kingdom which were to belong to them.
He forgot, moreover, that Ferdinand had at the head of his armies a tried chieftain, Gonzalvo of Cordova, already known throughout Europe as the great captain, who had won that name in campaigns against the Moors, the Turks, and the Portuguese, and who had the character of being as free from scruple as from fear.
Gonzalvo of Cordova was already upon Neapolitan territory with a Spanish army, which Ferdinand the Catholic had hastily sent thither at the request of Frederick III. himself, who had counted upon the assistance of his cousin the King of Arragon against the French invasion. Great was his consternation when he heard that the ambassadors of France and Spain had proclaimed at Rome the alliance between their masters.