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History of Valencia
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, by the river Turia in the province of Edetania. Wikipedia
Valencia's rather lengthy history reaches all the way back to 138 BC when the Iberian peninsula was a part of the massive Roman Empire.
Though the recorded history of Valencia begins in 138 BC when a Roman garrison founded the city on the banks of the Turia river, the city was built on a ...