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“…A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily of pure blood and "white," unlike converted Jews and Muslims, Amerindians, and Africans.Gradually Spaniards settled the most intractable of these disputes. By the time the liberal Constitution of Cadiz (1812) was ratified, consensus held that almost all people born in Spain's territories, whatever their ethnicity, were Spanish…”

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“…Because liturgical texts written in Uygur were produced in the period of Uygur sponsorship of the religion (approximately from the middle of the 8th century through the first quarter of the 11th century), they may in instances reflect the participation of real people in real time during that period (e.g. those confessors whose names appear in copies of the Xwāstwānīft). …”

“…In the following years, at least 100 times he used his face as the only subject in engravings, drawings and paintings. …”
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