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3 unusual facts about Valentia


Luguvalium

Luguvalium (or, possibly, Luguvalium Carvetiorum) was a town in the Roman province of Britannia and capital of the late Roman province of Valentia.

River Ferta

It flows from the southwestern Macgillicuddy Reeks above Teeromoyle and travels ten miles before flowing into Valentia Harbour.

Tarraco

A milestone, found in Tarragona's Plaça de Braus, mentions the highway between 12 and 6 BC, leading Barcino to the north-east and Dertosa, Saguntum and (Valentia) to the south.


Arthur Annesley

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (1744–1816), British peer, succeeded as 8th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia (1843–1927), British politician and Comptroller of the Household, grandson of the 10th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey (1678–1737), Anglo-Irish Tory politician, succeeded as 6th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (1614–1686), Anglo-Irish royalist statesman, succeeded as 2nd Viscount Valentia

Count of Valentinois

The Count of Valentinois was originally the official in charge of the region (county) around Valence(Roman Valentia).

Jovinus

Jovinus fled for his life, but was besieged and captured in Valentia (Valence, Drôme) and taken to Narbo (Narbonne), where Caius Posthumus Dardanus, the praetorian prefect (governor) in Gaul, who had remained loyal to Honorius, had him executed.

Knightstown

Knightstown, County Kerry, the principal settlement on Valentia Island, Ireland

Vibo Marina

Pizzo and Bivona are nearby; other important towns near Vibo Marina are Vibo Valentia, Lamezia Terme and Tropea.

Vickers Valentia

Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works (Walney Island perhaps), having been ordered in May 1918 as a potential replacement for the Felixstowe F.5.

Viscount Valentia

A year later, his kinsman Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Baronet, was given a "reversionary grant" of the viscountcy, which stated that on Power's death Annesley would be created Viscount Valentia.


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