Born Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid is the national hero of Spain. His title of "the Cid" comes from a Spanish dialect of Arabic, sidi, meaning "sir" or "lord," and was a title he acquired during his lifetime.
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Portrait of El Cid, from The Historians' History of the World, 1904.
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