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    Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion"). He was born...
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    El Cid Campeador is an outdoor equestrian statue depicting the Spanish knight El Cid by artist Anna Hyatt Huntington, architect William Templeton Johnson...
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    El Cantar de mio Cid (lit. 'The Song of my Cid', or 'The Song of my Sidi ('lord')'), or El Poema de mio Cid, also known in English as The Poem of the...
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  • El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston. The film is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century...
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    Arcangel, 29 November. Church of Saint Michael Monument to El Cid Campeador at the Solar del Cid. Convent of Nuestra Señora del Espino: Founded by Pedro...
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  • El Cid is a Spanish historical action drama streaming television series about Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar "El Cid", the 11th-century Castilian knight and warlord...
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  • only son of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador, and his wife, Jimena Díaz. The earliest reference to El Cid's son is in the Historia Roderici, which...
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    Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador, a medieval knight of the 11th century and one of Spain’s greatest characters. El Cid is not only a literary character...
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    Colada (category Cantar de mio Cid)
    Colada is one of the two best-known swords, along with Tizona, of El Cid Campeador. Won in combat from the Count of Barcelona, the sword was presented...
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  • El Cid: The Legend (Spanish: El Cid, la leyenda) is a 2003 Spanish animated film written and directed by José Pozo. It is based on the story of Rodrigo...
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  • known as El Cid Campeador and Jimena Díaz. Sources associated with the legend of her father tell of the marriages of the daughters of El Cid to the Infantes...
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    play Las Mocedades del Cid. Castro's play in turn is based on the legend of El Cid. An enormous popular success, Corneille's Le Cid was the subject of a...
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    1099 the kingdom was also subject to the rule of legendary military leader El Cid. Mubarak and Muzaffar: 1010/1–1017 Labib al-Fata al-Saqlabi (Tortosa c....
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    the Castilian nobleman Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid Campeador. Its origins date back to the conquest of Hispania by the Moors who...
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    Crónica del muy esforçado cauallero el Cid Ruy Díaz Campeador. Brian Powell, Epic and Chronicle: The Poema de Mio Cid and the Crónica de Veinte Reyes (Modern...
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    Jimena Díaz (category El Cid)
    Ximena Díaz [ʃiˈmena ˈdi.adz̻]; before July 1046 – c. 1116) was the wife of El Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076, and her husband's successor...
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    brothers, with a young noble at his side: Rodrigo Díaz, later known as El Cid Campeador. Sancho was killed in the siege of Zamora by the traitor Bellido Dolfos...
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    plays were based on the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (nicknamed "El Cid Campeador"), a military figure in Medieval Spain. The original 1637 edition of...
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    of Honor for world leaders, including Chinese president Xi Jinping. El Cid Campeador by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1927), on the grounds of the palace, facing...
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  • Cristina Rodríguez (born c. 1075) was a daughter of Rodrigo Díaz also known as El Cid and Jimena Díaz. In 1099 or earlier, she married Ramiro Sánchez of Pamplona...
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  • King Fernando "Little El Cid no boken". Retrieved 13 October 2019. "Ruy, el pequeño Cid". Retrieved 6 March 2019. "Ruy, el pequeño Cid (Serie de TV) (1980)"...
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    famoso cavallero Cid Ruy Díez Campeador, commonly called the Crónica particular del Cid, is a 15th-century Spanish biography of El Cid. Juan de Velorado...
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    Lorca, Antonio (2016-12-06). "Los toros son el décimo espectáculo de masas de España (y no el segundo)". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-06. Ministry...
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    of Jerusalem. 1099: death of the great Spanish hero Rodrigo Díaz "El Cid Campeador". 1099: after building considerable strength, David IV of Georgia discontinues...
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    daughter of the Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid. He succeeded his father as lord of Monzón and also held Logroño. In 1134...
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    Torrecid (category Cantar de mio Cid)
    Torrecid was a Christian motte-and-bailey castle where El Cid camped for fifteen weeks around the year 1081 according to legend. The site remained buried...
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  • mentioned in the Cantar de Mio Cid who would have been the brother-in-law of Jimena Díaz who fought along with El Cid and accompanied Jimena during her...
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  • recorded in the Cantar de Mio Cid, written c. 1200, as the name of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043–1099, known as El Cid Campeador), and Don Rodrigo king of...
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    El Cantar de Myo Çid ( El Poema de Myo Çid or Mio Cid, known as The Song of my Lord, known in English as The Lay of the Cid and The Poem of the Cid)...
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    Balboa Park, San Diego (El Cid Campeador); and Buenos Aires, Argentina four bronze Castilian warriors arranged around the El Cid statue, bronze flagpole bases...
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