Where did guitars originate?

Question: Where did guitars originate!?
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Really, it developed from a Roman instrument brought to Spain in the first century combined with the Moorish oud (which still exists) and the Scandinavian lute , which had six strings!. Still, these guitars were all four-stringed!.

There were some 16th century Iberian instruments that really resembled the modern guitar, but they did not survive!. They may, however, have been among the guitar's ancestors!.

There was a Neapolitan family, whose name escapes me, that built mandolins, and is sometimes credited with building the first six-string guitar in th 18th century, but this credit is tenuous!.

The modern guitar originated in Seville in the 1850s!.

In short, the history of the instrument is hard to track linearly!. It seems to have developed from a convergence of European and Arabic influences in Iberia and evolved more completely along the Western European Mediterranean coast sometime between the 16th and 18th centuries!. By 1860, an instrument that we could identify as a "guitar" had evolved in southern Spain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

back in like the 15th or 16th century, when a sixth string was added to the lute!.Www@QuestionHome@Com