The Viceroy Mendoza and the Seven Cities of Cibola General History of United States 01/10/201703/10/20170 The name "Seven Cities of Cibola" comes from the early sixteenth century, specifically 1508, the year in which the book of chivalry of Amadís de Gaula was published in Spain that narrates the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, seven bishops fled Spain with a fabulous treasure and took it