Theodoros the Greek, a seafarer from the Aegean island, probably a mercenary adventurer in the Spanish mission, arrived in Florida on April 14, 1528
Today, on April 14, 1528, an exploratory mission from Spain sailed to Florida, USA, near today’s Tampa. Among the Spanish Conquistadors was a Greek, the first to ever arrive in America.
His name was Don Theodoros Griego (Spanish: Theodore the Greek), a seafarer originating from the Aegean island, a probably mercenary adventurer in the mission, with shipbuilding knowledge.
Indeed, the statue of Theodore exists today in Tampa, Florida, on the Clearwater Beach coast, with the inscription “The History of the Greeks in America begins here”.
After many adventures and clashes with the natives, in a bay near the present city of Penzakol in Florida, Theodore went to land to take water from the Indians of the area. In the afternoon of the same day the Indians returned without Theodore, while the Spanish questions refused to answer and fled.
The Spaniards tried for two days to locate him without success. The mission eventually managed to reach California in 1535 and eventually return to Spain in 1537.
Three years later, in 1540, the Spanish conqueror’s secretary of the Spanish conqueror Ernado de Soto, Gonl Valdez and learned by the natives that the Greek had been murdered for an unknown reason by the Indians had been lost and learned from the Spanish conqueror.
The Indians who narrated the end of Theodore did not know when exactly Theodore was murdered, nor where he was buried.
Source: Skai
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