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	Valencian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Note that, for many in the Valencian Community, the use of the term is a statement of belief in the idea that there is a language called Valencian which is quite separate from Catalan.
		Valencian was the home language of the (Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507)) Borgia family.
		An exclusive feature of Valencian is the (A mood that represent an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible) subjunctive imperfect morpheme /ra/: que ell vinguera (that he might come).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/valencian.htm (1334 words)

	Valencian Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Valencian Community (Valencian/Catalan: Comunitat Valenciana, Spanish (Castilian): Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma in Spanish, or, in Valencian, comunitat autònoma) in the east of Spain.
		It is historically known as the Kingdom of Valencia (Regne de València in Valencian, Reino de Valencia in Spanish).
		Its languages are Spanish (Castilian) and Valencian, a dialect of Catalan.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/va/valencian_community.html (265 words)

	Land of Valencia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Land of Valencia is the historical territory of the former Kingdom of Valencia which was created in the 13th century, as a result of Christian colonization by Catalans and Aragonese of the Islamic taifas Valencia and Dénia, commanded by James I "the Conqueror".
		It is situated in the East of the Iberian Peninsula, between the Sènia and Segura rivers, and it has 840 km of land border and 518 km of coast along the Mediterranean Sea, where are situated the island of Nova Tabarca and the Columbretes islands, which are under Valencian administration.
		The official languages are Castillian (Spanish) and Valencian (Catalan), although the last one is considered legally the proper language, according the "Law of Use and Education of Valencian" approved in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valencian_Community (504 words)

	Encyclopedia: Valencia, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Valencia (Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian.: València /və'łεnsjə/) 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 Community and of province of Valencia.
		During the Franco years, speaking or teaching Valencian was prohibited; using the language at all was subject to criminal penalties.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Valencia,-Spain (740 words)

	Valencia (autonomous community) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The autonomous community of Valencia (Valencian: Comunitat Valenciana, Spanish (Castilian): Comunidad Valenciana) is located at the east of Spain.
		Its languages are Spanish (Castilian) and Valencian (legal denomination of the catalan language).
		Jijona (Valencian Xixona), near Alicante, famous for its soft nougat or turrón de Jijona (Valencian torró de Xixona).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Valencia_(autonomous_community) (344 words)

	The Times \| Business City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Valencian Community is located on the eastern coast of the Iberian Penninsula along the Mediterranean, and comprises of three provinces, Alicante, Valencia and Castellón.
		The Community has a surface area of 23,300 square kilometres, the equivalent of 4.6 per cent of the total surface area of Spain, however the region's population of 4.2 million accounts for approximately 10 per cent of the Spanish total, suggesting a densely populated area with several large settlements.
		Castellón is the northernmost province of the Community of Vallencia.
	www.bcglocations.com /spain/valenciancomm/valenciancomm_intro.html (2219 words)

	Valencian dialect\|Valencian Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is consensus amongst linguists that '''Valencian''' is the name for the '''Catalan language''' which is spoken in the Autonomous Community of Valencia (autonomous community)Valencia, Spain.
		It is thus the official name for one of two co-official languages declared in the Valencian Statute of Autonomy: Valencian (Catalan) and Castilian (Spanish languageSpanish).
		Northern Valencian is very similar to the Catalan of the Tortosa area, in the province of Tarragona (province)Tarragona.
	www.echostatic.com /Valencian_dialect\|Valencian.html (1259 words)

	Historical Flags (Valencian Community, Spain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is written in Valencian, though (a Catalan dialect or a Catalan-like language, depending whom you ask...).
		Again in Valencian, but the drawings are self-explanatory and the argument is that the original (gonfalon-like) royal flag (Senyera Reial) was allegedly unproperly restored in the 19th century, when it was cut into a swallowtailed flag and (because of the resulting short fly) a blue decorative hoist band added to it.
		Later the background derived to blue (near 1850) and finally was adopted as blue by the Autonomous Community, to establish a difference with the Catalan flag.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/es-vc_hi.html (1008 words)

	Economy
		The Valencian Community is located at the East of the Iberian Peninsula within the Mediterranean arch; it has an extension that compared to the national area, represents the 4.60%.
		The three provinces that form the Valencian Community (Castellón de la Plana at the North, Valencia and Alicante at the South) represent the aforementioned percentage and are situated along the coast.
		Although this type of data depends on the source that we select, we have to bear in mind that the Valencian Community is one of the Spanish regions with a major fl economy (or not declared), so it is supposed that the level of unemployment is not that high.
	www.hellovalencia.galeon.com /productos674541.html (1045 words)

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		It is thus the official name for one of two co-official languages declared in the Valencian Statute of Autonomy: Valencian and Castilian (Spanish).
		Alghero and Roussillon the local dialects are at least as different from the speech of Barcelona as Valencian is, and yet it does not occur to these speakers to call their language anything but Catalan.
		While professing the unity of the Catalan language, the Spanish government claimed to be constitutionally bound to produce distinct Catalan and Valencian versions because the Statute of the Autonomous Community of Valencia calls the regional language "Valencian", while that of Catalunya calls its regional language "Catalan".
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Valenciano (1380 words)

	Terralingua -- resources for Valencian
		Legal status — the "Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community" (1982) specifies that the official languages of the region are Valencian and Castilian.
		Language — Valencian is spoken in the Valencian Community, which is located on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
		Almost half (54.5%) the Valencian population speaks Valencian; it is the mother tongue of the 39% of the Valencians; 88.2% of the population understand it, but only 17.2% can easily read it and write it.
	www.terralingua.org /Valencian.html (1327 words)

	Application for foreign students
		Valencian Community's Public Universities (University of Alicante, University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia, University 'Jaume I' of Castellón and University 'Miguel Hernández' of Elche) act as a single university for admission purposes.
		Students meeting the requirements to apply for a place via the Valencian Community's Single District are more likely to be allocated a place at any of the Valencian public universities.
		Students belonging to the Valencian Community district are those with recognizable foreign studies, with entrance examinations via the UNED (Spanish Open Distance University) who have listed on their application form for such examinations any of the Valencian Community universities, whether foreign or Spanish citizens proving their residence abroad.
	www.ua.es /oia/en/estudios/preinscripcion/adextran.htm (1473 words)

	About Valencia Travel Guide, Valencian Community, Spain
		Valencia is identified with the Mediterranean Sea because the culture deriving from the old Mare Nostrum is manifest in its patterns of social behaviour.
		It is the administrative capital of the Valencian community and the centre of the reagion of L'Horta.
		It is the most densely populated town in the Valencian community as it is encircled by a wide belt of medium-sezed municipal districts which form an unbroken built-up area with an average density of 1,600 inhabitants per square kilometre.
	www.aboutvalencia.com (537 words)

	> Valencian abcworld.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For many in the Valencian Community, the use of the term is a statement of belief in the idea that there is a language called Valencian which is quite separate from Catalan.
		This is a list of features of the main forms of Valencian (Catalan spoken in the Valencian Community) that differ from those of other Catalan dialects, particularly from the Central or literary varieties of the language.
		Northern or transition Valencian: spoken only in the northern part of the province of CastellÃ³, and the area of Matarranya in the province of Teruel, in towns like Benicarlo or VinarÃ²s.
	www.abcworld.net /Valencian.html (1885 words)

	Valencian Community Spanish Costal Regions Mediterranean Costas Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The region of Valencia is located on the east of Spain and is well known for it's ceramics, fans and wicker-work.
		The Valencian coast consists of many beautiful resorts with golden beaches and towns full of history.
		It may be said that the Valencian coast consists of just one long beach, interrupted only by a few small cliffs at Cullera.
	www.thespanishpropertyregister.com /spain/valencian-community.htm (1463 words)

	Table of contents for Third language learners
		That is the case of Catalan in the Valencian Community, which is officially considered as a bilingual area where both Catalan and Castilian are employed.
		On the one hand, an outline of that community in is presented, thereby pointing to the status of Catalan and Castilian, the origin and evolution of the Catalan language in the Valencian Community and the role of bilingualism in the University setting.
		Since pragmatic competence was identified as one of the main components of Bachman's communicative competence model (1990), current studies have focused on the relationship between pragmatics and second language acquisition, that is to say, on what has been termed as interlanguage pragmatics.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004017324.html (2438 words)

	Valencian Community single district: pre-registration
		This would allow, on the one hand, to unify the existing places within the community, and on the other, speed up and simplify the proceedings established by Royal Decree 1005/91, on 14 June, by which proceedings to enter university centres are controlled.
		The agreement between the Regional Department of Culture, Education and Sciences and the universities within the Valencian Community on the students' admission process is therefore established in accordance to the previous paragraph and to the Royal Decree 1005/91 first additional provision.
		Proceedings to enter the university are controlled by the Royal Decree 1005/91 of 14 June and by the agreement signed between the Valencian Regional Department of Culture, Education and Science on the one hand, and the Valencian Community, on the other.
	www.ua.es /en/estudios/preinscripcion/preinscripcion.htm (3221 words)

	VALENCIAN COMMUNITY by All About Spain
		This Autonomous Community is a prototypical example of the "Mediterranean Spain", with a fantastic climate and more than 500 kilometers of coast.
		The Moorish legacy is still present in traditional artisany and agriculture with its praised oranges as well as rice.
		The second largest city of Valencian Community, dominated by the Moorish castle Castillo de Santa Barabara.
	www.red2000.com /spain/region/r-valen.html (254 words)

	WATER_ADVERTISEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a call to all citizens in the Valencian Community to take part in the Sunday Pro-Water Demonstration in favour of the National Hydrological Plan - PHN, to divert water from the River Jucar to Valencia.
		The historic shortage of water in the Valencian Community prevents farmers from being competitive when facing constant trade globalization.
		The citizens of the Valencian Community have been requesting a Hydrological Plan for years now, and demanding that water from the River Jucar be offloaded to help meet their shortage.
	www.spia.com /TEXTILESVAL/water_advert.html (301 words)

	West-East Business Partnership: Branchenbörsen helfen Unternehmen beim Einstieg in die EU-Erweiterung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, in harmony with the ongoing tertiarisation processes that are taking place in the most advanced economies, in the Valencian Community prevails a more and more powerful services sector (63% of GDP), that employs more than the half of the occupied population.
		The most outstanding activities are those related to the commerce (70.000 retail sale points spread over the whole Community), transports, communications and, of course, the tourist services existing all along our coast, whose quality is being improved by the contribution of all the implied economic agents.
		The notable opening of our Community has definitely settled, indeed, its trend to an export economy that, by itself, provides more than 21% of the whole Spanish exports, due to the commercialisation of a diversified range of industrial and agrarian products.
	www.west-east-partnership.net /6partn_ausl/065_sp/sp_reg1.html (407 words)

	Spain News - Processionary worm plagues Valencian Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sixteen municipalities in the Valencian community are treating a plague of processionary worms that have become abundant in the regions trees.
		Five per cent of Valencian pines are affected by the plague and the plague has to be controlled all year round to keep the levels of damage down.
		The Valencian government has decreed the treatment is obligatory in 48 municipalities in the Community.
	www.thinkspain.com /news-spain/265 (745 words)

	Valencia -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		It was severely damaged in the Peninsular War, during the Spanish Civil War, and by flood in 1957.
		capital of Valencia province and the autonomous community (region) of Valencia, and of the former kingdom of Valencia, eastern Spain.
		Located on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Río Turia (Guadalaviar), it is surrounded by orchards in a region known as the Huerta de Valencia.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9381706 (774 words)

	http://www.fsplanet.com/
		Bathed in Mediterranean sun, giving warmth and that special kind of light that Sorolla immortalized on canvas the Valencian Community is a beatiful place to live or visit.
		You'll be pleasantly surprised by the City itself and the warm, inviting character of its inhabitants.
		Another native author, Joan Fuster, wrote that Alicante "is without a doubt, the friendliest of all Valencian cities, a city one would choose to live in if one were to exchange a village for a city".
	www.fsplanet.com /mainstore14.htm (836 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Legal and political status: The Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community (1982) specifies that the official languages of the region are Valencian and Castilian.
		Idiom: The Valencian Community, located on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a population of 4 million.
		Speakers: Nowadays Valencian is spoken by 2 million in the Valencian Community and in a small area of the frontier region of Murcia called "el Carche".
	www.ogmios.org /188.htm (1765 words)

	Javea - Seeting - Communications - Valencian Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Javea - Seeting - Communications - Valencian Community
		Jávea-Xàbia is situated in the Valencian Community and has a surface of 68.4 km2.
		Jávea may also be reached via the A-7 motorway, from the Benissa or Ondara junctions.
	www.javea.net /idiomas/en/01-07-03.htm (148 words)

	Subnational Flags (Spain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I think Catalonia is completely divided in comarcas and in the Community of Madrid there are seven (without flags, as far as I know).
		Please note that all autonomous communities have provinces, even if some of them are made up of only one province Asturias, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Balearic Islands.
		Pascal Vagnat asked, "did the provinces of the uniprovincial communities Asturias, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Balearic Islands—; have a flag and/or a coat of arms".
	flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/es-.html (853 words)

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