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While El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) was away from Valencia in October 1092, the Valencians had gathered at the house of Ibn Jahhaf and agreed to appeal to Muhammad ibn Aisa to depose Yahya al-Qadir, sending the troops under Ibn Nasr, but Al-Qadir entrenched himself and sent an urgent message to El Cid.
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain.Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
The Way of El Cid (Spanish: El Camino del Cid) is a cultural and tourist route that crosses Spain from the northwest to the southeast, from Castilla to the Mediterranean coast. It follows the history and the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador, a medieval knight of the 11th century and one of Spain’s greatest characters. El Cid ...
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Vivar, or Vivar del Cid, is a village of approximately 260 inhabitants, [1] part of the municipality of Quintanilla Vivar, located 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) away from Burgos, Spain. Tradition holds that the village was the birthplace of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid , as first written in the Castilian epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid .
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The village of Vivar del Cid, reputed birthplace of El Cid, is included in the municipality.
El Cid fortified his new kingdom by building fortresses along the southern approaches to the city to defend against future Almoravid attacks. [11] In late 1096, an Almoravid army of 30,000 men besieged the strongest of these fortresses, Peña Cadiella (just south of Xativa). [11] El Cid confronted them and called on Aragon for reinforcements ...
Al-Mu'taman counted on the services of the mercenary troops of the Castilian lord El Cid, who had been exiled by King Alfonso VI for conducting raids against his interests in the Taifa of Toledo, then a tributary of the king. In 1081, El Cid therefore offered his service to the king of Zaragoza, al-Muqtadir, and remained with al-Mu'taman during ...