Valencian Community
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| Anthem: Himne de la Comunitat Valenciana ("Anthem of the Valencian Community") | |
.svg) Map of Spain with Valencian Community highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 39°30′N 0°45′W / 39.500°N 0.750°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Formation | 1238 (Laws of Valencia) 1305 (Torrellas) 1707 (Nova Planta) 1812 (Const. of Cádiz) |
| Statute(s) of Autonomy | 1982 (First Statute) 2006 (Second Statute – in force) |
| Capital (and largest city) | Valencia |
| Province(s) | |
| Government | |
| • Type | Devolved government in a constitutional monarchy |
| • Body | Generalitat Valenciana |
| • President | Carlos Mazón (PP) |
| Legislature | Corts Valencianes |
| General representation | Parliament of Spain |
| Congress seats | 32 of 350 (9.1%) |
| Senate seats | 17 of 265 (6.4%) |
| Area | |
• Total | 23,255.43 km2 (8,978.97 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 8th |
| 4.6% of Spain | |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 5,216,018 |
| • Rank | 4th |
| Demonyms | Valencian • valencià, -ana (va) • valenciano, -na (es) |
| Official language(s) | |
| GDP | |
| • Rank | 4th |
| • Total (2022) | €126.416 billion |
| • Per capita | €24,473 (13th) |
| HDI | |
| • HDI (2021) | 0.895[2] (very high · 11th) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code prefixes | |
| ISO 3166 code | ES-VC |
| Telephone code(s) | +34 96 |
| Currency | Euro (€) |
| Official holiday | October 9 |
| Patron saint(s) | Saint Vincent |
| Website | gva |
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The Valencian Community[a] is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants.[3][4] Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community is divided into three provinces: Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.
According to Valencia's Statute of Autonomy, the Valencian people are a "historical nationality".[5] Their origins date back to the 1238 Aragonese conquest of the Taifa of Valencia. The newly-founded Kingdom of Valencia enjoyed its own legal entity and administrative institutions as a component of the Crown of Aragon, under the purview of the Furs of Valencia. Valencia experienced its Golden Age in the 15th century, as it became the Crown's economic capital. Local institutions and laws continued during the dynastic union of the early modern Spanish Monarchy, but were suspended in 1707 as a result of the Spanish War of Succession. Valencian nationalism emerged towards the end of the 19th century, leading to the modern conception of the Valencian Country.[b][6] The current autonomous community under the Generalitat Valenciana self-government institution was established in 1982 after the Spanish Transition.
Official languages are Spanish and Valencian (the official and traditional name used in the Valencian Community to refer to what is commonly known as the Catalan language).[c][7][8][9][10][11] As of 2020, the population of the Valencian Community comprised 10.63% of the Spanish population.
- ^ "Contabilidad Regional de España" (PDF). www.ine.es.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "Población de España en 2021, por comunidad autónoma". Statista. July 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2020.
- ^ "Estatut d'Autonomia". Corts Valencianes. 1982. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Preamble on Valencian Statutes of Autonomy 1982 and 2006: "Aprovada la Constitució Espanyola, va ser, en el seu marc, on la tradició valenciana provinent de l'històric Regne de València es va trobar amb la concepció moderna del País Valencià i va donar origen a l'autonomia valenciana [...]" - Preamble of Valencian Statute of Autonomy (reformed in 2006) Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Valenciano, na". Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Dictamen sobre los Principios y Criterios para la Defensa de la Denominación y entidad del Valenciano" (PDF).
It is a fact the in Spain there are two equally legal names for referring to this language: Valencian, as stated by the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community, and Catalan, as recognised in the Statutes of Catalonia and Balearic Islands.
- ^ Decreto 84/2008, de 6 de junio, del Consell, por el que se ejecuta la sentencia de 20 de junio de 2005, de la Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunitat Valenciana.
- ^ "no trobat". sindicat.net.
- ^ Lado, Beatriz (2011). "Linguistic landscape as a reflection of the linguistic and ideological conflict in the Valencian Community". International Journal of Multilingualism. 8 (2). Routledge: 135. doi:10.1080/14790718.2010.550296. ISSN 1479-0718. S2CID 143313778.
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