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Alicante (Alacant in Valencian) is a province in the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain, that is divided into 141 municipalities. As of the 2023 [update] Spanish census, the province is the 5th largest by population , with 1,952,291 inhabitants, [ 1 ] and the 41st largest by land area, spanning 5,817 km 2 (2,246 sq mi). [ 2 ]
Alicante (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k æ n t i /, also UK: /-t eɪ /, [3] US: / ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k ɑː n t i, ˌ ɑː l-/; [4] Spanish:; Valencian: Alacant; officially: Alicante / Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port.
There are archaeological findings in the area dating to the Bronze Age, as well as an Iberian necropolis and remains of Roman villas.. In the later stages of the Reconquista, Sax was at the focus of tensions between Castile and Aragon, since James I of Aragon conquered it from the Moors though it should have been reserved to Castile under the treaties of Tudilén and Cazorla.
Alicante is a city and port in Spain on the Costa Blanca, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí. Alicante may also refer to:
By the last years of the 6th century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca carried out his Iberian conquests in 237–228 BC, and established the fortified settlement of Ákra Leukḗ, or Akra Leuce, [10] (Greek: Ἀκρα Λευκή, meaning "White Citadel" or "White Promontory"), [11 ...
A Stradivarius violin made at the "pinnacle" of Antonio Stradivari’s career sold at auction for an eye-popping price this week.. The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the ...
The Caipira viola or Caipira guitar [1] (in Portuguese: Viola caipira), is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. [2] It is a variation of the Portuguese viola that developed in the state of São Paulo during the colonial period, [3] serving as a basis for Paulista music, especially for subgenres of Caipira folklore, such as moda de viola, caipira pagode ...
Alicante (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k æ n t i /, also UK: /-t eɪ /, [2] US: / ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k ɑː n t i, ˌ ɑː l-/; [3] Spanish:; Valencian: Alacant; officially: Alicante / Alacant) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is the second most populated Valencian province.