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Kingdom of Valencia

The Kingdom of Valencia (Valencian: Regne de València, IPA: [ˈreŋne ðe vaˈlensi.a]; Spanish: Reino de Valencia; Latin: Regnum Valentiae), located in the eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon.

Kingdom of Valencia

Realm of the Crown of Aragon

Valencia

Valencian, Aragonese, Castilian, Andalusi Arabic and Latin

Monarchy

 

James I of Aragon

Philip V of Spain

Valencian Courts

Medieval / Early modern

1238

1707

Spain

The Kingdom of Valencia was formally created in 1238 when the Moorish taifa of Valencia was taken in the course of the Reconquista. It was dissolved, along the other components of the old crown of Aragon, by Philip V of Spain in 1707, by means of the Nueva Planta decrees, as a result of the Spanish War of Succession.


During its existence, the Kingdom of Valencia was ruled by the laws and institutions stated in the Furs (charters) of Valencia; these charters granted it wide self-government under the Crown of Aragon and, later on, under the Spanish Kingdom.


The boundaries and identity of the present Spanish autonomous community of the Valencian Community are essentially those of the former Kingdom of Valencia.

The interior would have been mostly repopulated by people coming from the kingdom of Aragon, speakers of some variety of the , a Western Romance language. Their language was a close relative of the Mozarabic language and of the Old Castilian language, from which the modern Spanish language stems.

old Aragonese language

The coastal lands would have been mostly repopulated by speakers of the from the Principality of Catalonia. This was one of the Occitano-Romance languages. In this traditional view, the language of these settlers replaced entirely the previous languages and became modern Valencian, generally considered a variant of Catalan.

Catalan language

Conquest of Valencia by El Cid

List of Valencian monarchs

Generalitat Valenciana

Valencian Parliament

Palace of the Borgias

Robert Ignatius Burns. Harvard University Press, 1967.

The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier.

(in Spanish)

Vicente Coscollá Sanz, La Valencia musulmana