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Pioneers/Explorers: Hernan Cortes
Hernan

Name origin: Spanish

Name meaning: Adventurous

 
Cortes

Name origin: Spanish (Cortés), Catalan (Cortès), and Portuguese (Cortês)

Name meaning: from cortés ‘courteous’, ‘polite’, a derivative of corte (see Corte), a nickname for a refined person, sometimes no doubt given ironically.

 
 
 
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