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Viceroyalty of New Castile
The Viceroyalty of Peru was first called Viceroyalty of New Castile, look here:

--80.109.37.211 19:03, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * http://facstaff.elon.edu/lunsford/peru/lima.html
 * http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/texts/argentina-chapter.htm
 * german book: Kleine Geschichte des Kolonialismus, Wolfgang Reinhard, 1996


 * Actually, "Nueva Castilla" (New Castille) was the name of the Governorship granted to Francisco Pizarro at the Capitulación de Toledo in 1529. The Viceroyalty was only created by the Crown in 1542 by the Leyes Nuevas (New Laws). By that time Pizarro had died and the New Castille governorship was transformed into the Viceroyalty of Peru. So, while there was a New Castille Governorship which included part of the territory of the future Viceroyalty, the latter was created as Viceroyalty of Peru, not as Viceroyalty of New Castille.


 * As for your sources, I've checked the two websites and they seem barely credible as they don't cite any primary source (or even secondary ones). I could point you to several sources to back my point. I'll present a couple of them, the first one is the Instruction sent to Blasco Núñez Vela, the first viceroy of Peru and the second is an account by Diego Fernandez (also known as "el Palentino") of the Leyes Nuevas (New Laws) of 1542. As you can see, both of them are primary sources:

The translations are mine, so they are kind of rough, but you see the point. Greetings, --Victor12 00:03, 15 June 2007 (UTC)