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Valencia
Valencia , autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. It was established as an autonomous region in 1982 by the statute of autonomy. The country is chiefly mountainous, with a... Read more |
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Valencia (Venezuela)
Valencia , city (1990 pop. 903,621), capital of Carabobo state, N Venezuela. It is Venezuela's fourth largest city and one of its major industrial centers. Products include motor vehicles, chemicals, textiles, cattle feed, and consumer goods. Lying in a leading agricultural region, the city is a... Read more |
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Rodrigo de Osona
Osona, Rodrigo de (d Valencia, 1518). Spanish painter. He was one of the leading painters of his day in Valencia, introducing both Netherlandish and Italian Renaissance influence to the area. His most important work is a Crucifixion (1476) in the church of S. Nicolás, Valencia. On the basis of... Read more |
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Valencia (Spain)
Valencia city (1990 pop. 758,738), capital of Valencia prov., E Spain, on the Turia River. The third largest city in Spain, it lies in a fertile garden region a short distance from its busy Mediterranean port, El Grao, on the Gulf of Valencia. It is an active industrial and commercial center... Read more |
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Andres Marzal de Sax
Marzal de Sax, Andrés (active 1393–1410). Painter of German origin (Sax indicating Saxony) who worked in Valencia, Spain. Only one fragment survives of his documented works—the Incredulity of St Thomas in Valencia Cathedral, part of an altarpiece he completed for the cathedral in... Read more |
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Jose Iturbi
José Iturbi , 1895-1980, Spanish-American pianist, b. Valencia, Spain. Iturbi studied at the Valencia and Paris conservatories on scholarship. His worldwide concert tours were brilliantly successful. He excelled as an interpreter of Spanish music. In New York City in 1929 he made his American... Read more |
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Francisco Ribalta
Ribalta, Francisco (bapt. Solsona, Catalonia, 2 June 1565; d Valencia, 13 Jan. 1628). Spanish painter, an important figure in the transition from Mannerism to a more naturalistic style. He spent most of his early career in Madrid, but by 1599 he had settled in Valencia. Up to about 1620 his work... Read more |
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Sagunto
Sagunto , Latin Saguntum, town (1990 pop. 58,135), Valencia prov., E Spain, on the Palencia River, in Valencia. A seaport on the Mediterranean, it is an important metallurgical center, with iron and steel foundries. Saguntum was an ally of Rome when it was besieged and captured (219-218 BC) by the... Read more |
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Juan Luis Vives
VIVES, JUAN LUIS(b. Valencia, Spain, 6 March 1492; d. Bruges, Netherlands [now Belgium], 6 May 1540), education, philosophy, psychology.Probably born to Jewish parents who adopted Catholicism in the oppressive religious atmosphere of fifteenth-century Spain,1 Vives became one of the greatest... Read more |
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