What is "valencia"

Valencia \Va*len"ci*a\, n. [Perhaps fr. Valence in France.] A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton. [Written also valentia.]

place in Spain, Roman Valentia Edetanorum "fort of the Edetani," a local people name; the first element from Latin valentia "strength" (see valence (n.)).

n. 1 City and capital of the Valencian Community (Spain) 2 Valencian Community 3 City in northern Venezuela

Valencia (; ), officially València , is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 1.5 million people. Valencia is Spain's third largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 1.7 to 2.5 million. The Port of Valencia is the 5th busiest container port in Europe and the busiest container port on the Mediterranean Sea. The city is ranked at Gamma in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.

Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. The city is situated on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the Gulf of Valencia on the Mediterranean Sea. Its historic centre is one of the largest in Spain, with approximately 169 hectares; this heritage of ancient monuments, views and cultural attractions makes Valencia one of the country's most popular tourist destinations.

Valencia is integrated into an industrial area on the Costa del Azahar (Orange Blossom Coast). Valencia's main festival is the Falles. The traditional Spanish dish, paella, originated in Valencia.

Valencia (València) is the capital of the Valencia Autonomous Community in Spain.

Valencia may also refer to:

Valencia is an American alternative rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They are currently on hiatus.

Valencia is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Denominació d'Origen in Valencian) for wines located in the province of Valencia ( Valencian Community) and is divided into two separate zones and four sub-zones each one of which produces a different type of wine.

Valencia, also known as The Love Song, is a 1926 American silent romance film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, who came over from Paramount to direct, and starring Mae Murray and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited role. Rumors of a surviving print persist. The film was a box office hit and the title song, Valencia, was the top song in the U.S. for the year.

Valencia is a pasodoble song composed by José Padilla for the 1924 Zarzuela La bien amada and included in the 1926 silent film Valencia, with lyrics translated by Lucienne Boyer, Jacques Charles, and Clifford Grey. Recorded by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra, it became one of the biggest hits of 1926, topping the charts for 11-weeks beginning March 30, 1926.

Tony Martin recorded the song in 1950, and his cover reached #18 on the U.S. chart.

Valencia is the only genus in the family Valenciidae. Valencia is a genus of ray-finned fishes. It is sometimes grouped into the family Cyprinodontidae. Members of this genus are restricted to southern Europe.

Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning novel by Michelle Tea. It is an autobiographical and picaresque detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture. It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive southern upbringing to San Francisco.

Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected. From 1986 until 2015 it elected sixteen deputies out of the total number of three hundred and fifty. Since the 2015 General Election it has elected fifteen members. Corresponding to the Province of Valencia, most of the electorate resides in the metropolitan area of Valencia which includes Valencia City and its satellite towns such as Torrent, Paterna, Mislata, Burjassot and Xirivella.

In political terms, the district has shown a long term shift to the right. Valencia initially favoured the parties of the left and centre left who won nine of the district’s fifteen seats in the 1977 election, an election which was won overall by the centre right Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). However, by 2008, despite the fact that the centre left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, the centre right People's Party (PP) won nine of the sixteen seats in the district. Although smaller parties such as United Left and Valencian Union polled over 10% in previous elections and won seats, elections until 2008 had become dominated by the two main Spanish parties, the PSOE and PP, who won all the seats in the 2008 election and together received over 90% of the votes cast. However, at the 2011 election, United Left regained a seat, while Coalició Compromís and Union, Progress and Democracy won their first seats in the district.

Valencia '' (German:Du schönste aller Rosen'') is a 1927 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring María Dalbaicín, Dorothea Wieck and Oscar Marion. It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Valencia is a historic plantation house located near Ridgeway, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built in 1834, and is a large two-story frame house on a brick pier foundation. The house features a hipped roof, two mammoth chimneys, and a broad one-story piazza with unique elliptical arches. Valencia was built by Edward Gendron Palmer, a leader in civic, political, and religious life of Ridgeway and Fairfield County.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.