History

Originally a Greek settlement, Valencia later fell into the hands of the Carthaginians, and in the second century BC became the Roman colony of Valentia, which went on to prosperity in the reign of Augustus. In the 413 it became the Visigoths and in 714 from the Moors, who called it Medina bu-Tarab (city of joy).After the fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Valencia and the adjacent coast became an independent Kingdom, which was conquered by the Almoravids in 1092. Two years later it was recovered by the Cid, but in 1102 it fell again into the hands of the Moors. In the predominance of Mohammed ibn Said, the war of the Spanish Succession became the capital of a Moorish Kingdom, until its reconquest by Jaime I of Aragon in 1228.Durante at the beginning of the 18th century, Valencia supported the Habsburg. In 1808 the town rises up against the French. During the Civil War, in 1936-37, it was the headquarters of the Republican government, and the last Republican bastion to fall against Franco on March 30, 1939, two days after Madrid.