Old Spanish
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Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and m
Al-Fatiha with Spanish translations in Aljamiado script above each line of Arabic Quranic text
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Cantar de mio Cid
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El Cantar de mio Cid, or El Poema de mio Cid, is an anonymous 12th-century cantar de gesta and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian h
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…spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most famous literary composition in Old Spanish is the Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1140–1207). ( and were apico-alveolar…
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El Cid's daughters after being beaten and tied up, work by Ignacio Pinazo (1879).