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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (survăn'tēz, Span. mēgel' dā thervän'tās sä"ävā&thstrok;rä) [key], 1547–1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b. Alcalá de Henares.

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