Thursday 16 June 2022

The Good Old Glory Days When The Cid Shattered the Teeth of the Jihad. One of the most remarkable feats in the long war between Islam and Christianity: the capitulation of the great kingdom of Valencia, which had been under Muslim control since the eighth century Islamic invasion of Spain, to the warlord Roderick (or Rodrigo) Díaz of Vivar — better known to posterity as “the Cid”.

  When the Cid Shattered the Teeth of the Jihad

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