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Valencia (/ v ə ˈ l ɛ n s i ə /; Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ; officially in Valencian: València) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain. It is the third-most populated municipality in the country, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023); [1] 2,522,383 inhabitants live within the metropolitan area.
History of Valencia. 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 ...
Valencia was established in 1967 as Valencia Junior College, with its first campus located in eastern Orlando. The college was created to address the growing demand for higher education in Central Florida. It was renamed Valencia Community College in 1971 and, in 2010, adopted its current name, “Valencia College,” to better reflect its ...
gva.es. The Valencian Community[a] is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants. [3][4] Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along ...
City of Arts and Sciences. The City of Arts and Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) [ a ] is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
Valencia is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The area, west of Interstate 5, is expanding with residential development and already includes major commercial and industrial parks. It straddles State Route 126 and the Santa Clara River. A major expansion of Valencia is under construction ...
Catalan Atlas. 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 ...
714 – Taken by Moors. [2] 1010 CE – City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia. 1021 – Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established [2] 1064 CE – Al-Mamun of Toledo in power. [3] 1094 – Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power. [4] 1109 – Almoravid Masdali in power.