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	Valencia (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian Catalan: València /va'łεnsia/) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Country.
		It is bordered by the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Castellón, and the Mediterranean Sea.
		The province is historically subdivided in comarcas/ comarques (shires):
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valencia_(province) (137 words)

	Valencia (autonomous community) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Valencia is an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) of eastern Spain, encompassing the Spanish levantine provinces of Castellón, Valencia, and Alicante and was established by the statute of autonomy of July 1, 1982.
		Castellón province occupies the northern part of the Valencia autonomous community, Valencia province is in the centre, and Alicante is the southernmost province.
		Valencia (Valentia) was a prosperous area during the Roman Empire and was taken by the Visigoths in the early 5th century AD.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/V/Valencia_community.html (893 words)

	Valencia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθia/; Valencian: València /va'łεnsia/) is a medium-sized port city (the third largest city in Spain) and industrial area on the Costa del Azahar in Spain.
		It is the capital of the Land of Valencia and of province of Valencia.
		As of 2004, the mayor of Valencia is Rita Barberá Nolla.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valencia (975 words)

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	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/keywordv.html (1148 words)

	Valencia (city) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The city of Valencia is the capital of Valencia province and the autonomous community (region) of Valencia, and of the former kingdom of Valencia, eastern Spain.
		Valencia has been called the city of the 100 bell towers, of which the most outstanding are the Gothic Miguelete Tower (1381-1424), adjoining the cathedral, and the hexagonal Tower of Santa Catalina (1688-1705), a fine example of Valencian Baroque style.
		Valencia was a walled town, but the walls were removed in the 19th century, and only two of its gates survive.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/V/Valencia_city.html (543 words)

	Alicante (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alicante or Alacant (in Valencian) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Land of Valencia.
		It is bordered by the provinces of Murcia on the southwest, Albacete on the west, Valencia on the north, and the Mediterranean Sea on the east.
		Alicante contributes with 11 deputies in the Spanish Parliament and with 30 deputies in the Corts Valencianes, the regional Parliament of the Land of Valencia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alicante_(province) (657 words)

	Valencia, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Valencia (Spanish: Valencia, Catalan/Valencian: València) is a medium-sized port city (the third largest city in Spain) and industrial area on the east coast of Spain.
		It is the capital of the Valencian autonomous region and of the province of Valencia, and with over 800,000 people in the city and more than a million in the metropolitan area it is the third largest city in Spain.
		The king James I of Aragon reconquered the city in 1238 and incorporated it to the new formed Kingdom of Valencia.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/v/va/valencia__spain.html (476 words)

	Encyclopedia: Valencia (province)
		The province is historically subdivided in comarcas/ comarques (shires): Officially, Spain is subdivided into: 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) and two autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas: Ceuta and Melilla).
		Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia.
		Guipúzcoa province Guipúzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish Guipúzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Valencia-(province) (1216 words)

	Valencia -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The province centres on the coastal plain of the Gulf of Valencia; it is limited to the south by the mountains of northern Alicante and less clearly to the north by the watershed of the Río Turia.
		It encompasses the Spanish levantine provinces of Castellón, Valencia, and Alicante and was established by the statute of autonomy of July 1, 1982.
		Born in Valencia, he became a favorite musician at the viceregal court of Valencia as a young man. He was a highly respected player of the vihuela, a type of guitar, and he wrote an instruction book that is still used today for learning how to play the instrument.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074685?tocId=9074685 (778 words)

	Valencia, Spain - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Valencia (Spanish: Valencia, Valencian: València) is a medium-sized port city and industrial area on the east coast of Spain.
		In the Spanish Civil War, Valencia was filled by republicans arriving to the last capital of the Republic in the last days of the war.
		Valencia (Region)[?]: Region of Spain, old administrative denomination from 1833 to 1982.
	openproxy.ath.cx /va/Valencia.html (336 words)

	Murcia (autonomous community) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It consists of one province, and contains the city of Murcia which is the capital of the province and the community.
		Murcia is bordered by Andalucía (provinces of Almería and Granada), Castilla-La Mancha (province of Albacete), which was historically connected to Murcia until 1833, Valencia (province of Alicante), and the Mediterranean Sea.
		Under the Moors, who introduced the large-scale irrigation on which Murcian agriculture depends, the province was known as Todmir; it included, according to Idrisi, the 11th century Arab cartographer based in Sicily, the cities of Murcia, Orihuela, Cartagena, Lorca, and Chinchilla.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Murcia_(autonomous_community) (494 words)

	About Valencia Travel Guide, Valencian Community, Spain
		The province of Valencia is the largest of the three which go to make up the Valencian community.
		Valencia is identified with the Mediterranean Sea because the culture deriving from the old Mare Nostrum is manifest in its patterns of social behaviour.
		Outside the destroyed wall grew the Valencia of the bourgeoisie, with its wide pavements, broad landscaped thoroughfares and countless instances of modernist architecture.
	www.aboutvalencia.com (537 words)

	Valencia (City) - Wikitravel
		Valencia is a beautiful old city in the Valencia province of Spain that is well worth a visit.
		The Metro Valencia consists of 4 lines (from which 1 is a tramway to the beach) and connects the suburbs with the city.
		The one with seafood and chicken is a Catalan invention; it's untypical for Valencia.
	wikitravel.org /en/Valencia_(City) (658 words)

	Valencia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian Catalan: València /va'łεnsia/) is a medium-sized port city (the third largest city in Spain) and industrial area on the east coast of Spain.
		Valencia has a metro system [1] (http://www.metrovalencia.com), run by FGV.
		During the Franco years, speaking or teaching Valencian was prohibited; using the language at all was subject to criminal penalties.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Valencia (844 words)

	valbandinfo
		The city of Valencia, with a population of almost one million, is the third largest city in Spain.
		The province of Valencia, with the outlying towns has a population of about two million.
		There are municipal conservatories throughout Valencia province where children can learn to play an instrument, but most of the band societies have their own schools set up.
	www.musicanova.net /valbandinfo.htm (1260 words)

	Valencia General Information About The City. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is situated in the centre of the Spanish Mediterranean coastline, latitude 40º 15´N and 38º 73´S and longitude 0º 01´E and 1º 34´W. It overlooks the spacious Gulf of Valencia and is skirted at the back by a group of medium-high mountains and rolling plains leading to the lands of Aragon and Castile-La Mancha.
		Valencia´s main tourist attractions are to be found in its cultural wealth, a sound infrastructure for business trips, a network of accommodation situated on clean beaches, its range of of nature reserves, its varied calendar of fiestas and rich gastronomy.
		Nowadays, Valencia is working on major projects and infrastuctures so as to enter the twenty-first century renewed and firmily rooted in the modern era.
	www.donquijote.org /valencia/city1.asp (277 words)

	Sagunto and Elche - Valencia Province, Spain - August 2003
		Valencia province covers the southeast coast of Spain and contains many major tourist attractions like Peniscola, Benidorm, Alicante and Denia.
		It was not part of our original plan but when we passed it on the way into Valencia the previous day we were so impressed with the series of castles sprawled across the hillside above it that we decided to go back and visit it.
		The capital city (also called Murcia) sprawls impressively across a valley and we would've taken a picture of it but we probably would've been killed in traffic because all the good vantage points were on the elevated highways.
	www.mrfs.net /trips/2003/Spain/Sagunto/Sagunto.html (1017 words)

	Fiestas - Region III
		Valencia Province - February 1-3 - "Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos".
		from Valencia; picturesque village on slopes of hill; church on summit, prehistoric caves (Covetes dels Moros].
		Valencia Province - August 22 - September 3 - "Ferias y Fiestas de la Verdimia".
	www.travelnet.co.il /espagne/menu/Fiestas-RegionIII.htm (874 words)

	Valencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Capital of Valencia autonomous region and of Valencia Province,
		Valencia remained under Rome until AD 413, when it was captured by the Visigoths.
		The Moors took it from the Visigoths in 714, and in 1021 they made it the capital of the independent kingdom of Valencia.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/city/valencia.htm (114 words)

	Gayguide - Friends - The Gaymap - Valencia - Spain - GayValencia
		city in eastern Spain, capital of Valencia autonomous region and of Valencia Province, on a fertile plain near the mouth of the Tura River in the Mediterranean Sea.
		Valencia remained under Roman control until AD 413, when it was captured by the Visigoths.
		During the Peninsular War, Valencia was held by the French from 1812 to 1813.
	www.gaymap.info /valencia (297 words)

	Cheap Accommodation in Valencia, Spain - Hotels in Valencia, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The AC Hotel Valencia is located only 5 minutes from the port and very near to the City of Art and Science and Oceanographic Park, in a new area of the city.
		The Alfa Hotel is located in the residential area of Valencia and is close to the trade fair, Congress Palace and beach.
		Its location is excellent, right in the centre of Valencia, in Barcelonina Street next to the Town's Hall Square and a few metres from the railway station, 15 minutes from the Trade Fair Centre and the airport.
	www.petitmonde.co.uk /hotels.aspx?City=Valencia (1403 words)

	Micro-reserves 'capture' Valencia's special flora
		It is this variety of habitat and flora, including at least 338 endemic species, in the Spanish provinces of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón – together comprising the autonomous Valencian region – that the botanists behind the micro-reserve programme seek to conserve.
		Back in Valencia province, at El Saler, an area of sand-dunes on the coast to the east of Valencia city, owned and managed by the City Council, more drastic action has had to be taken to establish a micro-reserve.
		This area of Valencia province, although a detached enclave between La Mancha and Teruel provinces, is proud to be the most ancient part of Valencia, captured from the Arabs early on in the Reconquista.
	www.plant-talk.org /stories/14micros.html (2509 words)

	Spanish Property Valencia
		Valencia is Spain's 3rd largest city, yet the province as a whole is relatively under-developed.
		In Valencia you could find your dream Spanish country home and yet still be only 15 minutes from one of the most vibrant cities in Europe.
		Read more about valencia province and choose from hundreds of properties - both rural and in the city on Kyero.com.
	spain.othercountries.com /pages/property/valencia.asp (179 words)

	JATIVA - LoveToKnow Article on JATIVA
		(formerly written XATIVA), or SAN FELIPE DE JATIvA, a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the right bank of the river Albaida, a tributary of the Jflcar, and at the junction of the Valencia-Murcia and Valencia-Albacete railways.
		Jtiva is built on the margin of a fertile and beautiful plain, and on the southern slopes of the Monte Bernisa, a hill with two peaks, each surmounted by a castle.
		During the 1 5th and 16th centuries, Jhtiva was the home of many members of the princely house of Borgia or Borja, who migrated hither from the town of Borja in the province of Saragossa.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JATIVA.htm (329 words)

	SOL ALMERÍA - SOL Spain On Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		These villages are the cradle of neolithic cave drawings,including the symbol of the Province, the Indalo(a man carrying a rainbow which probably signifies a messenger of the gods.) This is just one example of the rich heritage and monument record which villages like Velez Blanco and Velez Rubio hold for the visitor.
		The ambiance of the district is created mainly by the impressive country park of Sierra Maria-Los Velez, located in the north of the province, next to Granada and Murcia provinces.
		Its luxuriant leafy forests are in sharp contrast to the arid character of the rest of Almeria.
	almeria.sol.com (1063 words)

	SOL CÁDIZ - SOL Spain On Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		At the same time, the province of Cádiz offers a marvellous coastline and beaches, that, for the time being, has been spared from massive construction.
		Cádiz is the most southern province of the Iberian Peninsula.
		To the northwest of the province are located the famous White Villages of Cadiz, calls thus because all of them have a common denominator: surroundings of escepcional beauty, narrow streets, great slopes and adorned white houses with flowers.
	cadiz.sol.com /?IdProvincia=46 (585 words)

	Valencia Travel Guide, Valencian Community, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The north coast of Valencia, the shoreline which is closest to the capital, has become a large expanse of sand, where tall towers of apartments and service infrastuctures have been built, sharing the landscape with farmsteads and large market gardens (huertas).
		Situated to the south of the capital, separated from the waters of the Mediterranean by a chain of dunes and pine groves, the lake of La Albufera was formed in the distant past from the deposit od sediments from the Rivers Turia an Jucar, which hemmed in this small inland sea of fresh water.
		Valencia has got the most famous parks in the world.
	www.donquijote.org /valencia (205 words)

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		Valencia is a rather industrial city with a lot of commerce, a large port, and tall apartment buildings, but it also has a beautiful old city center with tiny narrow streets and ornate balconies.
		Today, as the capital city of the Province of Valencia, 'Valencianos' are very proud of their identity and of their dialect, 'Valenciano.' In fact, you will find official notices, street signs, etc. written in Valenciano, classes given in Valenciano, and programs on television in the dialect.
		Fiestas of Valencia San Vicente Mártir The young deacon Vincent, who was made a martyr of in Valencia by the emperor Dioclecian in the year 303, aroused great excitement among the population.
	www.opendb.com /P4L/files/CostadelAzahar_info.doc (3726 words)

	OkSpain
		Valencia is a prosperous region, a patchwork of orchards, rice paddies and vineyards.
		Valencia has a well developed culture of its own that can be traced back to prehistoric cave paintings and to the ancient Iberian civilization that flourished here and produced such extraordinary sculptural works as the Dama de Elche (Lady of Elche).
		The Arabs bequeathed their castles and their architecture to Valencia, and to this day the mock battles between Moors and Christians are a much-loved fiesta throughout the region.
	www.okspain.org /comunidades/valencia.asp (412 words)

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		Other important cities include Valencia (763,308), capital of Valencia province and Valencia region, a manufacturing and rail centre; Seville (719,590), capital of Seville province and Andalusia region, a cultural centre; Saragossa (607,900), capital of Saragossa province Aragón region, another industrial centre; and Bilbao (370,900), a busy port.
		The fiesta at Valencia, the April fair in Seville, and the San Fermín fiesta at Pamplona are several of the more important ones.
		The first years of their rule, the Moors, as the Berber conquerors came to be known, held the peninsula (except for Asturias and the Basque country) as a dependency of the Province of North Africa, a division of the caliphate of Damascus.
	www.1001medrecipes.com /mSPAIN.htm (12986 words)

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