he evolution of classical guitars began with the influences of the vihuela and gittern in the sixteenth

century and ended with the modern classical guitar in the mid nineteenth century

The word guitar was adopted into English from Spanish word guitarra in the 1600s. ...
Kithara could have come from the Persian word sehtār. seh meaning "three" and tār meaning
"string". There is also a similar but two-stringed Persian instrument named dotār.

hristian Frederick Martin

Although steel-stringed acoustic guitars are now used all over the world, the person who
is thought to have created the first of these guitars was a German immigrant to the
United States named Christian Frederick Martin (1796-1867).