A statue of Theodore exists today in Tampa, Florida, on Clearwater Beach, with the inscription “The History of Greeks in America Begins Here.”
On April 14, 1528, an exploratory expedition sailed from Spain to Florida, USA, near present-day Tampa. Among them was a Greek, the first to arrive in America.
His name was Don Theodoros Griego (Spanish: Theodoros the Greek), a seafarer originally from an island in the Aegean. In fact, a statue of Theodore exists today in Tampa, Florida, on Clearwater Beach, with the inscription “The history of the Greeks in America begins here”.
The end of the Greek explorer
After many adventures and conflicts with the natives, in a cove near the present-day city of Pensacola, Florida, Theodore went ashore to get water from the Indians of the area.
In the afternoon of the same day the Indians returned without Theodore, while to the questions of the Spaniards they refused to answer and fled. The Spanish tried for two days to locate him without success. The expedition finally managed to reach California in 1535 and finally returned to Spain in 1537.
In 1540 he arrived at the point where Theodore had disappeared and Gondalo Valdes, De Soto’s secretary, learned that two Christians who were on Narvaeth’s expedition had stayed with the Indians, who for some unknown reason had killed them.
The Indians who narrated the end of Theodore did not know exactly when Theodore was murdered, nor where he was buried. They gave him only the manual used by Theodore.
With information from wikipedia
Source: Skai
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