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, officially , is a city in the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain.
The city is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital ( Castelló de la Plana), which it is separate from by the Mijares (or Millars) River. it has 51,367 inhabitants (2010 data), most of them living in the urban area that covers about 10.72% of its comarca's 55.4 km surface. Ranked by population, it is the second-largest city in the province (after the capital), and fifteenth in the Valencian Community.
The city was founded with royal status by King James I of Aragon in 1274 during his campaign to regain Muslim territory in present-day Valencia during the Reconquista. It later became an agricultural centre for orange cultivation, and more recently a centre for the ceramics industry.
Villarreal is a town in eastern Spain, in the province of Castellón.
Villarreal may also refer to:
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Villarreal CF, a football club based in Villarreal, Castellón
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- Villarreal CF C, the second reserve team of Villarreal CF
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- Diego Villarreal, a 16th-century Spanish conquistador who brought the Villarreals to the new world.
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