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4 unusual facts about Valencian Community


Capella de Ministrers

Along with another Valencian early music group Victoria Musicae directed by Josep R. Gil-Tàrrega, the Capella de Ministrers receives significant local government support from the Valencian Community (la Generalitat Valenciana).

Lliga Valenciana

The Lliga Valenciana (in English, Valencian League) is a basketball competition between the best teams of the Valencian Community.

Spanish basketball league system

1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.

Valenciana

Valencian Community (Spanish: Comunidad Valenciana), an autonomous community of Spain


2010 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

It took place on the weekend of 5–7 November 2010 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Cheste, Valencian Community.

Balearic cuisine

It can be regarded as part of a wider Catalan cuisine, since it shares many dishes and ingredients with Catalonia and the Valencian Community.

Carles Coto

In early July 2010, even though he still had one year of contract with the Valencian Community team, he moved teams and countries again, signing for Anorthosis Famagusta FC in Cyprus, managed by his former Barcelona youth manager Guillermo Ángel Hoyos.

Cristian Castells

Cristian Castells Ortega (born 19 October 1984 in Sueca, Valencia) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Platanias F.C. in Greece, as a central defender.

Entença, town

Because of this historical significance, streets or squares named 'Entença' or 'Entenza' are common in towns and villages throughout Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

House of Entença

Because of the historical significance of this bloodline, streets or squares named 'Entença' or 'Entenza' are common in towns and villages throughout Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

Jorge Palatsí

Jorge Palatsí Gallego (born 18 February 1988 in La Salzadella, Baix Maestrat, Valencian Community) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Girona FC in Segunda División, as a goalkeeper.

José Luis Miñano

José Luis Miñano García (born 22 May 1987 in Alicante, Valencian Community) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino in Belarus, as a midfielder.

Losillasaurus

The type species of the turiasaurian Losillasaurus giganteus was discovered in the Los Serranos basin in Valencia and formally described by Casanovas, Santafé and Sanz in 2001.

Madrid–Levante high-speed rail line

The Madrid–Levante high-speed line connects Madrid with the Mediterranean coast of the Levante Region, specifically with Castile–La Mancha, the Valencian Community and the Murcia Region autonomous communities.

Nationality

Spanish law recognises the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia and the Basque Country as "nationalities" (nacionalidades).

Nerlaska Studio

Nerlaska Studio is a game development company based in Vall de Uxó, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain.

Nosaltres, els valencians

The book was also criticized by some Valencian nationalists as well, who considered that Fuster took the Catalan nationalist model without adjusting it to the reality of what soon after (1982) became the present Valencian Community with the passing of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy.

Nou Mestalla

At midday on 28 May, trades union UGT and CC.OO. called a five-minute silence for the tragedy, which was observed throughout the Valencian Community in all sectors of industry.

Rodilla

Between 1993 and 1995 five new establishments were opened, and today it has a total of 72 restaurants; 63 in Madrid, 5 in Valencia, 2 in Barcelona, 2 in Sevilla, 1 in Toledo and 1 in Segovia.

Salva Chamorro

Salvador Pérez Martínez, aka Salva Chamorro (born 8 May 1990 in Orihuela, Vega Baja, Valencian Community), is a Spanish footballer who plays for UE Llagostera as a striker.

Spanish unionism

Nationalist parties are currently in charge of both the Catalan and Basque parliaments, whilst in Galicia, Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands (the other 3 autonomous communities with another official language different to the Spanish language) and in the Spanish Government, the People's Party is in power.


see also

Alqueria

In the case of the Valencian Community, Joan Fuster, in his book called El País Valenciano, makes an extensive reference to the Valencian alquerías.

Espadella

Espadella, a 968 m high peak, highest point of the Serra de l'Espadella range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Espadilla, a municipality in the Alt Millars comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

L'Horta

Horta of Valencia, a horticultural region in Central Valencia (see also horta) and a historic comarca of the Valencian Community.

La Mata

La Mata de Morella, a town in Ports, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain

Marcelino Guerra

Marcelino died in El Campello, a coastal town within the Valencian community in Alicante, Spain in June of 1996.

Millars

Millars or Millares town in the comarca of Canal de Navarrés, Valencian Community

Pinet

Pinet, Valencia, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Valencian language controversy

In May 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court revoked the instruction ordered by the Valencian Education Department in 1995, which had established that validation of Catalan language qualifications issued by either the Catalan or Balearic autonomous governments no longer applied in the Valencian Community.