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A northern cousin seen out in South American capital
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asuncion
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Asunción is a Spanish word that means ascension or assumption . In most cases the name refers to the Assumption of Mary . Asunción may refer to:
Usage examples of asuncion.
If he had been to Asuncion, he probably remarked that the people under those accursed priests were naught but animals and slaves, and launched into some disquisition he had heard in the solitary cafe which Asuncion then boasted.
How the little country, twelve hundred miles from the sea, came to give its name to such an enormous territory, and to have the seat of government at Asuncion, demands some explanation.
Having ascended past what is now Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, Cabot encountered Indians from the north who told him of the mines in Peru and in Bolivia, probably unaware that Cabot knew of them already.
Irala, after waiting for many months at Fort Olimpo, returned to Asuncion, where he found Ruiz de Galan acting as Governor.
Galan and Espinosa returned to Asuncion, taking with them the remainder of the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres.
At Asuncion they found that Irala had again returned without having discovered traces of Ayolas.
To preside over the heterogeneous elements of which Asuncion was composed, Domingo Martinez de Irala was chosen.
To Paraguay, at the foundation of Asuncion, it seems that hardly any women went.
Hearing at Santa Catalina that Buenos Ayres was almost abandoned, and that the inhabitants had founded the town of Asuncion del Paraguay, Alvar determined to march thither by land, and send his ship into the river Plate and up the Paraguay.
So having started from the coast upon November 2, 1541, he arrived at Asuncion on March 2, 1542, having accomplished a march of more than two thousand miles with but the loss of a single man and without the slaughter of a single Indian.
Hardly had he arrived at Asuncion before he found himself embroiled on every side.
Domingo de Irala at Asuncion bought a fine black horse for five thousand gold crowns.
On April 8, 1543, the Governor returned to Asuncion, worn out and ill with ague.
On arriving at Asuncion he found a rebellion going on, as not infrequently occurred when a Spanish Governor left his domains.
Irala died at the little village of Ita in 1557, and was buried in the cathedral at Asuncion, which he was building at the time.