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The Catalan Atlas ( Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language, [3] [4] and as "the zenith of ...
Valencia ( Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ, officially in Valencian: València [vaˈlensia]) [a] is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name. It is the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023) within the Ciudad de Valencia [1] and 1,582,387 inhabitants (2021) within metropolis of the ...
The kings of Habsburg Spain (January 23, 1516 – November 1, 1700) maintained the privileges and liberties of the territories and cities which formed the kingdom and its legal structure and factuality remained intact. A new position, Viceroy of Valencia, was created to manage the officially independent Kingdom.
3 June 1931. Reference no. (R.I.) - 51 - 0000968 - 00000. The Lonja de la Seda or Llotja de la Seda ( Valencian pronunciation: [ˈʎɔdʒa ðe la ˈseða], English "Silk Exchange") is a late Valencian Gothic -style civil building in Valencia, Spain. It is a principal tourist attraction in the city. The Silk Exchange in Valencia.
Vision of Spain. Vision of Spain, (Spanish: Visión de España) and also known as The Provinces of Spain, is a 1913–19 series of fourteen monumental canvas es by Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla depicting the customs, costumes, and traditions of regions of Spain. The series was commissioned by Archie Huntington for the Hispanic Society of ...
The Albufera, La Albufera or L'Albufera de València ( Valencian pronunciation: [albuˈfeɾa], meaning "lagoon" in Valencian, from Arabic البحيرة al-buhayra, "small sea"), is a freshwater lagoon and estuary on the Gulf of Valencia coast of the Valencian Community in eastern Spain. It is the main portion of the Parc Natural de l'Albufera ...
The history of Valencia, one of the oldest cities in Spain, begins over 2100 years ago with its founding as a Roman colony under the name "Valentia Edetanorum" on the site of a former Iberian town, [1] by the river Turia in the province of Edetania. [2] The Roman consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus transferred about 2,000 veteran soldiers ...
The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula ( Spanish: Atlas Lingüístico de la península ibérica; ALPI) is a project aimed at creating a linguistic atlas of the Iberian Romance languages. It was conceived by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), directed by his student, Tomás Navarro Tomás, and notable in part for its long and troubled ...