The Spanish language is the product of more than a thousand years of
development, over which period the diverse languages of the inhabitants
of the Iberian Peninsula were modified by the influence of Roman and
Arab invasions. At the close of the fifteenth century, with the union of
the monarchies of Castilla and Aragon, which extended their dominion
over the largest part of the peninsula, the language of Castilla - el
castellano - became imposed over the other idioms and dialects and
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