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Valencia (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 39 28 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 39.4667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 000 22 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -0.3667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Captured by Visigoths in 413 & by Moors in 714; seat of independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia 1021; kingdom captured from Moorish Almoravids by El Cid, who held it until his death in 1099; kingdom & city retaken by Moors 1102; united with Castile 1479. |
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| Valencia (preferred,C,V)
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| Valence (C,V)
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| Valenza (C,O)
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| Valencia del Cid (H,V)
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............ | medieval name |
| Valentia (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
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Valencia (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was prosperous Roman center, first documented in 2nd cen. BC |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| cultural center (C) |
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flourished in 15th cen. |
| publishing center (C) |
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was site of first Spanish printing press in 1474 |
| capital (H) |
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of loyalists during Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 |
| colony (H) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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