Brief Life History of Moisés
When Moisés Bendezú Medina was born on 24 May 1938, in Lima, Lima, Peru, his father, Víctor Moises Bendezu, was 34 and his mother, Angelica Medina, was 28. He died on 12 June 2012, in his hometown, at the age of 74.
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Sources (18)
- Legacy NFS Source: Moises Bendezu Medina - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Moises Bendezu Medina
- Moises Bendezú Medina, "Perú, La Libertad, Registro Civil, 1903-1998"
- Moisés Bendezú Medina, "Perú, La Libertad, Registro Civil, 1903-1998"
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World Events (3)
1975
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru.
1981
Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.
1982
"Deaths and ""disappearances"" begin to escalate following army crackdown on guerrillas and drug traffickers."
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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