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Valdivia (PEDRO DE a Spanish military)

PEDRO DE, a Spanish military officer; born in Estremadura, ice in Flanders; removed to Venezuela Spain, about 1498; was on military service in Flanders; removed to Venezuela in 1534; and two years later joined Pizarro against the Indians in Peru. Under that conqueror he aided in the defeat of Almagro at Las Salinas. Later he led 150 150 Spanish and several thousand Indians in an expedition against Chile, which had been ceded by Charles V. to VALENCIA ida, and other railroads. There are seed oil, fertilizers, lumber products, naseed oil, fertilizers, lumber products, naval stores, etc. It is the center of a prosperous agricultural region, raising cotton, fruit, and general farm products.

The South Georgia Normal College, high schools, and a Carnegie library are among its prominent educational features. Pop. (1910) 7,656; (1920) 10,783. VALENCE (vä-longs), a town of France, capital of the department of VALENCE (vä-longs), Drôme; on the Rhône; 57 miles S. of a town of vineyards and woods; has an important trade; and manufactures of silk goods, metal goods, etc. Its principal edifices are the cathedral, with the tomb of Pope Pius VI., barracks, citadel, court house, prison and theater. It has a communal college, a public library, school of artil lery, school of design, dock for shipbuilding, cotton printing and dyeing establishments, etc. Pop. commune, about 30,000. 00 merly capital of the kingdom, and now VALENCIA, a seaport of Spain, forof the province of the same name; on the