Valencia
Valencia names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Valencia a seaport of Spain
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a seaport of Spain, formerly capital of the kingdom, and now of the province of the same name; on the shores of the Mediterranean; 3 miles from the mouth of the Guadalaviar and 200 miles S. W. of Barcelona. In the Huerta ("garden") surrounding the city carob, citron, orange, palm, and mulberry grow in wild luxuriance. The old picturesque battlemented walls, erected by Pedro IV. in 1356, were removed in 1871; and while, in the old quarters, the houses are closely packed and gloomylooking, well suited to keep out the heat, those recently erected are gaily colored and furnished with courts freshened Pedro Sanchez de Hoz. After defeating with flowers and cooled by fountains. Valencia is the see of an archbishop, and Santiago on Feb. 12, 1541. Subsequently its cathedral, which was commenced in 1262, classical in the interior, and Gothic on the exterior, is 350 feet long. The church of the Colegio de Corpus is quite a museum of pictures by Ribalta. The picture gallery contains chiefly the productions the Valencian school of (Juanes, the Ribaltas, Ribera, etc.). The university has a library of over 50,000 volumes. The custom house, 1758, is now a cigar factory. Silk spindating from ning and weaving are extensively carried on; there are also manufactures of cloths, hats, glass, linen, leather, cigars, and Valencia tiles for flooring. The exports are mainly grain, sill fruits. Pop. silk , rice and about 245,000 Valentia del Cid, dating from the 2d cen- . Valencia, or tury B. C., was destroyed by Pompey, taken by the Goths A. D. 413, by the Moors in 715, and by the Cid in 1094. The union of Ferdinand and Isabella brought it under the Castilian crown. Suchet captured the city in 1812. The old kingdom of Valencia, now subdivided into the three modern provinces of Valencia, Alicante and Castellon de la Plana, comprises a tract of country in the E. of Spain, washed by the Mediterranean, and extending from Catalonia to Murcia. It has a hot but fine climate, a fertile soil, mineral wealth and many industries.
Valencia a city of Spain
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a city of Spain. It is situated on the eastern coast near the mouth of a small river. In size Valencia is the third city of Spain. There are manufactures of soap, chocolate, paper, tobacco, and silk, and a large export trade in oranges, wine, rice, and olive oil. The town was founded by the Romans 138 B. C. It has been occupied by the Romans, the Goths, the Moors, and the French. The principal buildings are from 200 to 700 years old. The citizens have pride in a university, a large library, a picture gallery, an extensive botanical garden , a bull ring, a theater, and other public institutions.
Valencia the capital and most important city of Carabobo
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the capital and most important city of Carabobo, Venezuela; in the Aragua valley, 24 miles S. of Puerto Cabello; altitude 1,824 feet above sealevel. It is the second city of Venezuela in population and importance, and is the trade center of a large section handling sugar, hides, coffee, cocoa, etc. Here are electric lights, beautiful parks and squares, regular streets, a National College, a cathedral, etc. In the vicinity are celebrated hot springs. Valencia was established in 1555. After the separation from Colombia the first Venezuelan Congress met here. Pop. about 55,000.
Valencia LAKE OF, a body of water in Venezuela
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAKE OF, a body of water in Venezuela, 2 miles from Valencia and near the Caribbean Sea; length, 22 miles; average breadth, 4 miles. It contains many islands and is the outlet of the Aragua river.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 figure of "about 245,000" for Valencia in Spain has more than tripled: the city holds roughly 800,000 people today, with about 1.5 million in its metropolitan area, and it is still Spain's third city as Aiton's 1910 account said. Two things reshaped it after these entries were written: it served as the Republican capital during the Civil War from November 1936, and after a catastrophic flood in October 1957 the Guadalaviar (Turia) was diverted around the south of the city, its old bed becoming a long strip of parkland that now ends in Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences, opened from 1998. The Venezuelan Valencia has grown far more sharply, from 55,000 to well over a million, becoming the country's main industrial centre; its lake, described here as "the outlet of the Aragua river," is in fact a closed basin with no outlet at all, and rising, heavily polluted water has flooded surrounding neighbourhoods in recent decades. Flooding remains the province's defining hazard: the storms of late October 2024 killed more than 200 people in and around Valencia.
Written for this edition, 2026.