Apotheosis of the Castilian language *3

Wallpainting by Luis Alberto at the Academy of Castilian Language in Bogotà.

Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin i.. Read more »n Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century.

Country:	Colombia
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Castilian Language, 10th Cent.
Nominal:	11 $
Year:	1978
Perforation:	14
Mintage:	80,000