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    Alfonso X of Castile, also known as Alfonso the Wise, ruled from 1252 until 1284. One of Alfonso’s goals for his kingdom was to lift Castile out of the...
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    Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, Spanish: el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his...
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    topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo...
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    Alfonsine tables (category Alfonso X of Castile)
    for computing the position of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. The tables were named after Alfonso X of Castile, who sponsored their...
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    Cantigas de Santa Maria (category Alfonso X of Castile)
    "Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile...
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    Calila e Dimna (category Alfonso X of Castile)
    Castilian collection of tales from 1251, translated from the Arabic text Kalila wa-Dimna by the order of the future King Alfonso X while he was still a...
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    first compiled during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284), with the intent of establishing a uniform body of normative rules for the kingdom...
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    literally "book[s] of the wisdom of astronomy [astrology]", is a series of books of the medieval period, composed during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile. They...
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    Alfonso VII (1 March 1105 – 21 August 1157), called the Emperor (el Emperador), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126...
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    Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (January 24, 1874 – June 10, 1938), was a historian, writer, bibliophile, collector, and activist. He also wrote many books....
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  • works of Zag de Sujurmenza, if less extensive, are not without merit. Toledo School of Translators Literature of Alfonso X Book of knowledge of astrology...
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  • General Estoria (category Alfonso X of Castile)
    ("General History") is a universal history written on the initiative of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284), known as el Sabio (the Wise). The work was written...
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    Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated...
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    l'eschiele Mahomet. According to the preface of these versions, King Alfonso X of Castile commissioned Abraham of Toledo to translate an Arabic work entitled...
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    Estoria de España (category Alfonso X of Castile)
    ("First General Chronicle"), is a history book written on the initiative of Alfonso X of Castile "El Sabio" ("the Wise"), reigned 1252-1284, and who was actively...
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    Eleanor of England (Spanish: Leonor; c. 1161 – 31 October 1214), was Queen of Castile and Toledo as the wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile. She was the sixth...
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    Alfonso X of Castile gave support and recognition to the writing form. He, with the help of his groups of intellectuals, directed the composition of many...
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    Alfonso Rangel Guerra (16 November 1928 – 6 May 2020) was a Mexican lawyer, educator, writer and administrator. Alfonso Rangel Guerra was born in Monterrey...
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  • context. The Galician translation of the Bible was begun in 1968 by Editorial SEPT and published in 1989. Alfonso X of Castile Xohán de Cangas Martín Codax...
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    works, mainly from classical Arabic into medieval Latin. Under King Alfonso X of Castile during the 13th century, the translators no longer worked with...
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  • José Luis Martínez Rodríguez (category Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise)
    Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) for Literature and Linguistics, the Alfonso Reyes International Prize (Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes), the Menéndez Pelayo...
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    writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving...
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    Reign of Berenguela of Castile. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 209–210. O'Callaghan, Joseph (1993). The learned king : the reign of Alfonso X of Castile...
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    first, because of the candidacy of Alfonso X for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, in which candidacy he had secured a majority of the electoral princes...
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    the end of Alfonso's father's reign, San Fernando. For his direction of these works and many others he directed, Alfonso X is called the father of Spanish...
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    siege of Museros castle. During his remaining two decades after Corbeil, James warred with the Moors in Murcia, on behalf of his son-in-law Alfonso X of Castile...
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    translated into several languages. Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio 2004 (Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Award) 2004 with María de Molina...
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  • the mid-19th century that Galician was used again in literature, and then in politics. Alfonso X of Castile Rosalía de Castro Filomena Dato Padre Feijoo...
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    Arabic into Spanish (during the times of Alfonso X).: 97  (The first European language grammar and dictionary, of Spanish referred to it as ladino or ladina...
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    King of Castile, while Sancho's younger brother Alfonso become King of León and his youngest brother García became king of the reestablished Kingdom of Galicia...
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