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    Conquest of the city of Valencia, called Balànsiya by the Muslims until the conquest, took place on 9 October 1238 by the Catalan-Aragonese troops of...
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    identity of the present Spanish autonomous community of the Valencian Community are essentially those of the former Kingdom of Valencia. The conquest of what...
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    The siege of Valencia (1092–1094) or El Cid's conquest of Valencia was fought between the Kingdom of Castile and the Taifa of Valencia. The Castilian victory...
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    El Cid (category Taifa of Valencia)
    and 1086; however, he more likely received the epithet after his conquest of Valencia in 1094. This title appears for the first time, as Meo Çidi, in the...
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    Valencia (/vəˈlɛnsiə/; Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ; officially in Valencian: València [vaˈlensia]) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of...
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    origins date back to the 1238 Aragonese conquest of the Taifa of Valencia. The newly-founded Kingdom of Valencia enjoyed its own legal entity and administrative...
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    Senyera (redirect from Flag of Catalonia)
    Counts of Barcelona in times of the initial dynasty (1164–1410) who ruled the Crown of Aragon. Furthermore, the Pennon of the Conquest of Valencia is documented...
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    The siege of Burriana was one of the battles that occurred during the Conquest of Valencia by James I of Aragon. Burriana was an important Muslim city...
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    battle of the Iberian Reconquista and of the Aragonese Conquest of Valencia. The battle took place in August 1237, pitting the forces of the Crown of Aragon...
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    The Lordship or Principality of Valencia was the state established by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in the city of Valencia and its surroundings and which existed...
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    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"...
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    The conquest of the island of Majorca on behalf of the Roman Catholic kingdoms was carried out by King James I of Aragon between 1229 and 1231. The pact...
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    Álvar Fáñez (category Year of birth unknown)
    Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, during the latter's exile and his conquest of Valencia. Álvar derived from the same Castilian noble stock that produced...
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  • of Spanish flags, with illustrations. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Spain. The provinces of A Coruña, Alicante, Castellón, Valencia...
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    considered that a Senyera was granted by James I of Aragon as the arms of Valencia following the Christian conquest from Moorish rule in 1238, although the earliest...
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    The Pennon of the Conquest (Spanish: Pendón de la Conquista; Valencian: Penó de la Conquesta) is the flag raised by the Moors of Valencia, Spain, on September...
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  • Valencia Club de Fútbol (Spanish: [baˈlenθja ˈkluβ ðe ˈfuðβol]; Valencian: València Club de Futbol [vaˈlensi.a ˈklub de fubˈbɔl]), commonly referred to...
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    the crusade that resulted in the Conquest of Valencia. Recorded in this book are the affiliation of the recipient of the house or farm, where they came...
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    Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia (Spanish: Iglesia Catedral-Basílica...
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  • former mosque soon after the conquest of Valencia in the 13th century. For many years, the town shared priest with the town of Serra or Torres Torres. In...
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    authority by James I of Aragon over the castles of Cinca, Malda, and Maldanell [ca] as a reward for his participation in the conquest of Valencia. In the fourteenth...
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  • autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. Pina was named after Fernando Pina, due to his involvement in the conquest of Valencia. Its main attractions...
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    the conquest of Valencia (1233–1245). In 1232, Almogovar armies took the strategic enclaves of Ares and Morella, opening the doors to the conquest of Valencia...
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    II of Aragon, who was at the time in the city of Monzón, gathered an army to attack the Moors of the Taifa of Valencia. Within the objectives of this...
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    they participated in the conquest of Valencia. One of the major battles the Señorío contributed its forces to was the Siege of Burriana which resulted...
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    defined the borders of the Kingdom of Valencia. James I of Aragon signed it on 26 March 1244, but Alfonso X of Castile did not affirm it until much later...
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    Almohads’ capture of Valencia, and wanted to strengthen the southern border of his kingdom. In the same year, he founded the city of Teruel, granting it...
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    that of St. Bernat Calvó (1233–43), who assisted James I of Aragon in the conquest of Valencia. A Gothic doorway leading to the chapter house has been...
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    governor of Nicaea, is defeated and forced to conclude a truce with Alexios. May – El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) completes his conquest of Valencia in Al-Andalus...
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    Zayd Abu Zayd (category Taifa of Valencia)
    last Almohad governor of Valencia. He succeeded as governor of Valencia to his uncle Abū 'Abd Allāh Muhammad. At the death of the Almohad caliph Yaqub...
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