Alonso Díaz Moreno was one of the richest of the great conquering captains of the New World. The honorables Kimos-Fakhry, and the Muci-Nader family of Venezuela.

 

Alonso Díaz Moreno was one of the most powerful and richest of the great conquering captains of the New World.  The honorable  Kimos-Fakhry, and the Muci-Nader family of Venezuela.  Earth from Space: Lake Valencia, https://youtu.be/wOXN4LbItpM. Valencia is the capital city of Carabobo State and the third-largest city in Venezuela.

The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. It is also the largest city in the Valencia-Maracay metropolitan region, which with a population of about 4.5 million is the country's second-largest after Caracas. Caracas lies some 172 kilometers (107 miles) away to the east.

Valencia was founded by Captain Alonso Díaz Moreno on March 25, 1555 – as the locals are proud of reminding visitors, eight years before Caracas was founded by Diego de Losada y Cabeza de Vaca. It was the first Spanish settlement in central Venezuela and its official name was Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Nueva Valencia del Rey. It was named after Valencia de Don Juan, Province of León, Spain. Conquistador Alonso Díaz Moreno's wife's father is Conquistador Diego Gómez de Agüero.

Conquistador Alonso Díaz Moreno's 4th great grandson is Simón Bolívar. Conquistador Alonso Díaz Moreno daughter Beatriz Díaz de Moreno y Rojas son Capitan de Infantería Antonio de Bolívar y Díaz de Rojas son Capitán Luis de Bolívar y Rebolledo son Juan Vicente de Bolívar y Martínez de Villegas son Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte-Andrade Cor Bolívar y Ponte-Andrade son Simón Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco. 

 

Alonso Díaz Moreno was one of the most powerful and richest of the great conquering captains of the New World. A prestigious captain, he possessed, in addition to the privileges of his high position, the substantial income that the Indians and vassals to his charge paid in gold and species as tribute, and he enjoyed the administration of the immense lands that were granted to him by order. Philip II of Spain, from whom he always received great benefits. He inhabited a herd of cattle in the Guacara Valley, the jurisdiction of Nueva Valencia del Rey, to which he received a title dispatched in the year 1595. 

 

His power was not limited only to the Province of Venezuela, but he exercised great influence in the recently organized Council and Chamber of the Indies. In the Holy Brotherhood, in the military orders, in the Courts of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, and general in all government acts where the advice and voice of the distinguished Captain were needed, he concurred with the wise and prudent word of he.  

 

He appeared as a witness in the quality certification file for Simón de Bolívar y de La Rementería (1532-1612) to opt for the position of Chief Accountant and Treasurer of the city of Santiago de León de Caracas. Before Governor Don Diego de Osorio, his testimony was described as "very valuable for being a neighbor of well-known nobility and a resident of the proven condition."  

 

He also figured in the recommendation made to the Crown for Caracas and Valencia to be endowed with a coat of arms and obtain the privilege of being titled Coronadas Villas. He was Mayor, Councilor, and Captain General of the Nueva Valencia del Rey and Ordinary Mayor of the First Election of Santiago de León de Caracas in 1591; Alderman, Treasurer of the Royal Treasury, Mayor Auditor of the Ocean Sea, Mayor Governor of the Province and the Holy Brotherhood, Lieutenant Governor and Captain General and Counselor representative of the King in 1600.

Alonso Arias de Villasinda (or Villacinda), Valencia de Don Juan (León),  – Coro (Venezuela),1557. Corregidor of León (Spain), judge of residence, governor, and general captain of the province of Venezuela, from 1553 until his death. 

 

He is the son of lawyer Alonso Arias de Villasinda, judge of the Council of Castilla. In Madrid he married Catalina Cabeza de Vaca. Widowed, in Valencia, he married Beatriz Valdéz for the second time; from both marriages, he left offspring in Venezuela. 

 

On December 14, 1551, Princess Doña Juana appointed him judge of residence against Juan Pérez de Tolosa, and the title of governor and captain-general of the province of Venezuela "until another person is provided" (Archivo de Indias, Caracas, 1, fol. 155v.); This interim was extended and was only cut short by the death of Arias in his exercise. 

 

He traveled late to America. He presented himself to the town hall of Coro (Venezuela) on June 12, 1553; He took residences with statements from the main Indians and they claimed that they "had nothing to complain about" the government of Juan Pérez de Tolosa. He traveled to El Tocuyo and Nuestra Señora de Barquisimeto. He found these new cities flourishing, due to the good governments of Juan Pérez de Tolosa and Juan de Villegas. A report from the time quantifies the livestock at three thousand cows, one thousand horses, twelve thousand sheep, and good amounts of pigs and goats. 

 

Among Arias' activities, the attempt to subdue the Jirajaras and Nirguas Indians, who prevented the exploitation of the Buría gold mines, stands out. He commanded Arias, first, in 1554, Captain Diego de Montes, with forty soldiers, founded the town of Las Palmas, soon abandoned; Later, he sent Captain Diego de Paradas, who refounded Las Palmas under the name of Nirva. It was difficult to subdue the warlike Indian "nations": it was not until 1628 that they were appeased. 

 

In 1550 he armed a large number of soldiers, and under the command of Alonso Díaz Moreno, he founded a city near the Tacarigua lagoon; After some fighting, Nueva Valencia del Rey was founded on March 25, 1555, by Alonso Díaz Moreno. 

 

In 1556, Arias de Villasinda moved the city of Nuestra Señora de Barquisimeto, founded by Juan de Villegas on the banks of the Buría River, to the Barquisimeto River Valley. During the government of Arias de Villasinda, the ruling of the Council of the Indies was produced on April 13, 1556, which ended with the intervention of the German banker Welser in the conquest and colonization of the "mainland" of Venezuela. Exercising the position of governor, Arias died on an undetermined day in the month of February 1557. By his will, he provisionally governed each mayor in his local jurisdiction, until the interim governor appointed by the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo arrived.

 

The foundation of Valencia has also been attributed to Captain Vicente Díaz, in 1553 and not in 1555; This is how Brother Nectario María maintained it for some years; but when delving a little deeper into the subject, brother Nectario himself affirmed in his book "Origins of Valencia" (1970), that the founder was Captain Alonso Arias de Villasinda, governor and captain-general of Venezuela between 1553 and 1557 and that such This fact occurred during the first year of his government.

 

Valencia became the capital of Venezuela in 1830 after it separated from Gran Colombia. It ceased to be the capital soon afterward, becoming once more the seat of the national government in 1858 after the Monagas were  toppled and the March Revolution took place. On November 15, 1892, the University of Valencia, the future University of Carabobo, was founded. 

 

When dictator Juan Vicente Gómez died in 1935, Nueva Valencia del Rey was a small city. The oil revenues and industrialization that came along led to a population explosion. Many immigrants, firstly from Europe and increasingly then from other Latin American countries, chose Nueva Valencia del Rey as the place to live in Venezuela like  the honorables Muci-Nader, and Kimos-Fakhry family.

Gileni Nader was born in 1859 in Lebanon, and died in 1939; she was 80.  Musa Muci married Gileni.  They had the following children.  i.     MARIEM MUCI (-). ii.     NICOLAS MUCI  (1882 - 1956). iii.     JOSE MUCI  (1888 - 1978). iv.     IBRAHIM MUCI  (1891 - ).  v.     Salomon MUCI  (1896 - 1971), and vi.     AZIZ MUCI  (1905 - 1989) Muci-Nader. 

JOSE Muci-Nader was Born on Nov 12, 1888, and died on Jul 15, 1978 in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela; he was 89.  JOSE married FRANCISCA MARGARITA MENDOZA LAYA.  They had the following children. i.     GILENI  (1923 - ????).  ii.     ROSA  (1927 - ????). iii.     JOSE  (1928 - ????). iv.     JOSEFINA (1931 - 2008).  v.     FIDIAS ELIAS  (1933 - 1975). vi.     LUIS NICOLAS  (1935 - 2004). vii.     FRANCISCO JOSE  (b.1936). viii.     Dr. RAFAEL DE JESUS (b.1938), and  ix.     AZIZ EFRAIN  (1939 - 1996) Muci-Mendoza.

Salomon Muci-Nader was born in 1896 in Remmah, Akkar, Lebanon. Salomon died in 1971 in Valencia, Venezuela; he was 75.  Salomon married Llamili HADDĀD BACHU.  They had the following children.           i.     KAMAL  (1928 - 1990).  ii.     LATIFI  (1929 - 1930).  iii.     LLAMAL  (1931 - 2008).  iv.     MALAQUI  (1933 - 1945).  v.     FADEL  (1934 - 2020). vi.     HADEL  (1935 - 1944). vii.     ADIB  (b.1937), and, viii.     SALOMON  (b.1942) Muci-Haddād. Llamili Haddād-Bachu was born on Nov 21, 1905, and died on Jun 15 1980 in Valencia, Venezuela; she was 74.

Vicente FAGRE (Fakhry). Born about 1870 in Líbano. Vicente married Teresa FAGRE. They had the following children. i. María (-) ii. Pedro (1896 - 1963)  iii. Adela  (1910 - 2005) iv. Pablo Vicente  (1911 - 1925) v. Julia  (1914 - 1958), and vi. José Vicente  (1923 - ????) Fakhry-Fakhry (FAGRE-FAGRE).

Tomas MUCI. Born about 1870, in La becasse-lb, Chbânîyé, Mont-Liban, Lebanon. Tomas married Warde BUTROS ZUCCAR. They had one child. i. José Muci-Fakhry (1900 - ????).

José MUCI FAGRE (Fakhry). Born about 1900, in La becasse-lb, Chbânîyé, Mont-Lebanon. José died in Caracas, Libertador, Distrito Capital, Venezuela. On Jan 29 1936, when José was 36, he married Victoria KIMOS FAGRE. They had the following children. i. Janett (-) ii. VICTORIA F (b.1933) iii. MABEL  (b.1937) iv. MANZUR JUAN  (b.1939) v. SONIA (b.1939), and vi. TONY (b.1946) Fakhry-Kimos.

Slaime YEBRIN. Slaime married Janett FAGRE KIMOS. They had the following children. i. Jose Simon  (b.1960, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela), and ii. Alberto  (b.1967, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela). Alberto Yebrin Fagre's mother's mother's sister's son's wife is Irene María Vilagut-Vega.

José Asad KIMOS FAGRE. Born in 1895, in Líbano. José Asad died in 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela; he was 65. José Asad married Adela FAGRE. They had the following children.  i. Victoria  (1915 - ????) ii. Olga  (1916 - ????). iii. Maria  (1917 - ????) iv. Angela  (1919 - ????) v. Hilda Gladys  (1931 - 2016) vi. Echijede  (1932 - ????) vii. Claudette  (b.1935) viii. Jorge  (b.1937) ix. Henriette  (b.1939) x. Dr. Pablo José  (b.1946), and xi. Henry  (b.1946)  Kimos-Fakhry.  Hilda Gladys Kimos Fakhry's son's wife's brother is Rafael Alberto Vilagut-Vega.

 

Valencia Venezuela from the Sky - 4k Drone Footage, https://youtu.be/taw3gVwqyeY.  San José, Costa Rica, February 7th, 2023, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega, is an engineer and magister, and since recent years historian, writer, and professional genealogist.