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Abd al-Rahman I laid waste to old Valencia by 788–789. [22] From then on, the name of Valencia (Arabised as Balansiya) appears more related to the wider area than to the city, which is primarily cited as Madînat al-Turâb ('city of earth' or 'sand') and presumably had diminished importance throughout the period. [23]
Museu de les Ciències in Valencia, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. 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]
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The Gallery of Maps [1] (Italian: Galleria delle carte geografiche) is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
After one of the main prisons of Valencia burnt down in 1586, the towers were turned into a prison for knights and the nobility until the prisoners were transferred to the monastery of Saint Austin in 1887. Since then, they have been used for different purposes, for instance for a wide range of official ceremonies and as a museum.
Sagunto [a] (Valencian: Sagunt) [b] [2] is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. It belongs to the modern fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre. It is located approximately 30 km (19 mi) north of the city of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea.
Map of the province of València and its main towns. The first crown of València metropolitan area is drawn in dark brown. Valencia (/ v ə ˈ l ɛ n s i ə / və-LEN-see-ə or / v ə ˈ l ɛ n ʃ (i) ə / və-LEN-sh(ee-)ə, Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ), officially València (Valencian:), is a province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community.