Francisco de Aguilar (conquistador)
Francisco de Aguilar( 1479 — 1571?), born Alonso de Aguilar, was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition led by Hernán Cortés that resulted in the conquest of the Aztec Empire and the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec state in the central Mexican plateau.
He was granted an" encomienda" after the conquest, but in 1529, eight years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, he gave up his" encomienda" and entered the Dominican Order, adopting the name" Francisco".
Aguilar spent the remaining 40 years of his life as a Dominican friar.
According to Patricia de Fuente, who translated his account to English, Aguilar" was contemplative by nature, and ... he brooded about the moral aspect of the Conquest."
Late in his long life, in his early 80s, his fellow Dominicans urged him to write an account of the Aztec conquest drawing from his experiences.
This account, known as" Relación breve de la conquista de la Nueva EspañaBrief Record[ Account] of the Conquest of New Spain"), went unpublished in his lifetime, however a manuscript copy of it was preserved at the royal library of El Escorial outside of Madrid, Spain.
It was first published in 1900 by the Mexican historian and archivist, Francisco del Paso y Troncoso.
A modern English translation of Aguilar's chronicle is published in" The Conquistadors: First- Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico," In his elderly years, he was diagnosed with gout and he soon died in Mexico at the age of 92.
Battle of Maraj-al-Debaj
Battle of Marj- ud- Debaj was fought between the Byzantine army, survivors from the conquest of Damascus, and the Rashidun Caliphate army in September 634.
It was a successful raid after three days of armistice, on the Byzantine survivors of the conquest of Damascus.
Nazih Kawakibi
Nazih Kawakibi (1 April 1946 – 7 March 2009) was a Syrian architect and a historian of architecture.
Kawakibi was a professor at Damascus University, faculty of architecture.
He taught a variety of subjects including; descriptive geometry, shadows in perspective, the history of early Christianity and Islamic architecture, lighting and acoustics.
He was a member of the friends of the old city of Damascus; a watchdog group on the conservation work in the old city.
He was known to be an activist, whose love
of his city guided his actions in communities and historic conservation in Damascus
and in general.
He had collected a significant archive on the material culture of the old city of Damascus and other towns and cities in Syria.
Martín Yañéz Tafur
Martín Yañéz Tafur(?, Córdoba, Andalusia, Castile-?, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the foundation of Cartagena, the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and the conquest of the Panche.
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella( 18 October 1915- 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journalist for several newspapers and magazines.
In 1937 he entered the film industry as assistant of Carmine Gallone for" Scipio the African", and the following year made his debut as a director of short films.
During the war he was correspondent from the Soviet front.
From 1946 to 1951 he was artistic director and chief editor of the INCOM newsreel production company.
In 1939 Paolella directed his first feature film," The Last of the Road".
In subsequent years, he first directed a series of musical films of great success produced by Carlo Infascelli, then he specialized in the comic genre.
Paolella directed his last film in 1979, and briefly rejoined the industry in the early nineties when he collaborated on several screenplays for films directed by Sergio Sollima, Stelvio Massi, Lamberto Bava and Aldo Lado.
K. M. Chaitanya
K.M. Chaitanya( Kannada: ಚೈತನ್ಯ) is a film director, documentary maker and theater person.
His first feature film Aa dinagalu in Kannada, won several awards including the Filmfare Awards South for Best Director and Best Feature Film in 2007.
Chaitanya also won awards for Best Debutant Director by the South Indian Cinematographers' Association, Chennai Film Fans Association and Raghavendra Chitravani Award.
Aa Dinagalu was listed by The Week among the top 10 Indian films of 2007.
Chaitanya studied Journalism at Christ College.
Ishaq ibn Yahya ibn Mu'adh
Ishaq ibn Yahya ibn Mu'adh( died 851) was a ninth- century provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving as governor of Damascus and Egypt.
Aa Dinagalu
Aa Dinagalu is a 2007 Indian Kannada language crime drama film based on the non-fiction novel" Daadaagiriya Dinagalu" by Agni Shridhar, and directed by K. M. Chaitanya.
It stars Chethan Kumar in the lead role.
The supporting cast features Sharath Lohitashwa, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Atul Kulkarni and Veda Sastry.
The plot revolves around mafia in Bangalore during the 1980s when gangsters Kotwal Ramachandra and M. P. Jayaraj dominated the Bangalore underworld.
The film's soundtrack and background music was scored by Ilayaraja.
Upon theatrical release on 19 October 2007, the film received positive reviews from critics who acclaimed the screenplay and the acting performance of Sharath Lohitashwa who portrayed the role of Kotwal Ramachandra.
The film won three awards each at the 2007 – 08 Karnataka State Film Awards and 55th Filmfare Awards South; the awards at the latter ceremony being Best Film, Best Director( K. M. Chaitanya) and Best Supporting Actor( Sharath Lohitashwa).
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus is a 1965 Italian" peplum" film directed by Domenico Paolella.

Question: Are both directors of films Goliath At The Conquest Of Damascus and Aa Dinagalu from the same country?
Answer: no