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The Cid, or Cid Campeador (d. 1099) "The name given in histories, traditions, and songs to the most celebrated of Spain's national heroes." (The New International Encyclopaedia ,Vol. V, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 325-326.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 655. (The Cid orders the execution of the Kadi, drawn by A. de Neuville.)
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