Adelantado

Meaning

A military and political office used in Castilian expansion and linked to conquest and territorial government.

Reference source

Canarias Historia — cronología de la conquista

Related

The Impact of Colonization on Guanche Society: Transformation and Resistance 1496 · Conquest of Tenerife and La Palma, completing the incorporation of the islands into Castile. Alonso Fernández de Lugo Conquest and Indigenous resistance