Hernández was born in Orihuela, in the Valencian Community, to a poor family and received little formal education ; he published his first book of poetry at 23, and gained considerable fame before his death.

It was because of the novelty of this new Catalanist paradigm, consisting of Catalanism made from Valencia, that the book caused a stir in the Valencian Francoist establishment and, with the advent of democracy in Spain, still remained deeply controversial for its uncompromising views.

The book was also criticized by some Valencian nationalists as well, who considered that Fuster took the Catalan nationalist model without adjusting it to the reality of what soon after ( 1982 ) became the present Valencian Community with the passing of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy.

The book remained most influential in the Valencian Community during the 1980s.

This book, together with Qüestió de Noms (" Matter of Names ") and El País Valenciano (" The Valencian Country "), are basic books on the history, culture and national identity problem of the Valencian Community from a Catalanist point of view.

Joanot Martorell () ( Gandia, south of Valencia, 1413 – 1468 ) was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Valencian ( Martorell calls it " the Valencian popular " " vulgar llengua valenciana " spoken in the Kingdom of Valencia ).

One of the most outstanding works of all Catalan and Valencian literature is the romance Tirant lo Blanch, written by the Valencian knight and poet Joanot Martorell.

Tirant lo Blanch (, modern spelling: Tirant lo Blanc ) is a romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell and published in the city of Valencia in 1490.

Its original spelling was Tirant lo Blanch, although it is now frequently referred by Tirant lo Blanc, according to the modern Valencian orthography ( which differs from the orthography used in the original work ).

Martí Joan de Galba () ( died 1490 ) was co-author of the famous Valencian epic Tirant lo Blanc, which he helped finish after the death of his friend, the main author of the work, Joanot Martorell.

Page from Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell, Valencian edition, 1491

( Llevant Unió Esportiva in Valencian ) is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, in the namesake community.

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community Despite these changes having been proposed and approved by fellow members of the PSOE, former Finance Minister Pedro Solbes disagreed with this new trend of assigning state investment quotas to territories based on any given autonomous community custom requirement and has subsequently compared the task of planning the Spanish national budget to a sudoku.

Although there are two standard dialects, one based on Eastern Catalan and one based on Valencian, this article deals with features of all or most dialects as well as regional pronunciation differences.

(), usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or just Villarreal, is a Spanish football club based in Vila-real, a city in the province of Castellón within the Valencian Community.

That group of parties was headed by Unitat del Poble Valencià ( UPV, founded in 1982 ) which is the main predecessor of the current Bloc, together with other smaller parties, often locally based, such as the Valencian Nationalist Party ( 1990 ) or Alcoi Nationalists ( 1994 ).

is a Spanish football team based in Elche, Alicante, in the Valencian Community.

Paella ( ) is a Valencian rice dish that originated in its modern form in the mid-19th century near lake Albufera, a lagoon in Valencia, on the east coast of Spain.

Valencian restaurateur Juan Galbis claims to have made the world's largest paella with help from a team of workers on 2 October 2001.

Valencian carpenters used planks of wood called parots to hang their candles on during the winter, as these were needed to provide light for the carpenters to work by.

Peter's first act as king was to complete the pacification of his Valencian territory, an action which had been underway on his father's death.

Castellón de la Plana () or Castelló de la Plana (), commonly known as Castellón, is the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea.

Two seasons later, the two clubs met again in the tournament, but with a different outcome ( 3 – 1 on aggregate for the Valencian ).

For more general information on the features of Valencian, see Catalan language.

José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, at 41 Paula St., to a Spanish Valencian father, Mariano Martí Navarro, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, a native of the Canary Islands.

FGV was founded as a company in 1986, and on 1 January 1987 took over all remaining narrow gauge railways in the Valencian Community.

Gandia () is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Eastern Spain on the Mediterranean.

To date, Nosaltres els Valencians remains a fundamental cornerstone of the literature on Valencian identity, as much despised by some — who see in it a Catalanist fifth column in Valencia — as revered by others — who regard it as a yet to be surpassed reflection on the Valencian identity.

Jijona () or Xixona () is a town and municipality in the Valencian Community on the eastern coast of Spain.

The last great component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was presented on October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day.

His last publication, El cortesano ( 1561 ), modeled on Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, gives a vivid and entertaining picture of life in the Valencian ducal court.

The Catalans and the Valencian Maulets carried on fighting for their cause devoid of international allies.

It is located on the natural way from Aragón to Valencian Community, between the Serra d ' Espadà on the north and Serra Calderona on the south.

The name of the festival is thus the plural of the Valencian word falla.

Generalitat (,, literally in English ' Generality ') is the name of the autonomous systems of government of two of the present Spanish autonomous communities: Catalonia and the Valencian Community.

Funerary vase from the necropolis of Lucentum ( the Ancient Rome | Roman name for Alicante, Valencian Community | València, Spain ).

The name comes from Valencian orxata, probably from ordiata, made from ordi ( barley ) ( Latin * hordeata < hordeum ).

Derived from another style called Bakalao, which was in reality the local name given to an association of electronic dance music played together with pop / rock tunes in Valencian clubs in the second half of the 1980s.

The Valencian kingdom disappeared as a legal structure, and was only left as a name, empty of meaning.

The name in Valencian is Sogorb, but the local language is Spanish, not Valencian.

The Muixeranga () is the collective name given to the performance of ancient street dances and human castles, originating in the Valencian Community, which are still preserved in the town of Algemesí, southwest from Valencia.

Valencian is the name used for the same language that is called Catalan in Andorra, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia, among other places.

Valencian is the official name of the language in the Valencian Community and has its own writing rules dictated by the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, created in 1998.

This institution recognises that Catalan and Valencian are different local forms of the same language — mutually intelligible to all speakers — with no single accepted common name.

Vinalopó river flows through this comarca giving its name to it ( Baix Vinalopó is Valencian for " Lower Vinalopó "), even though nowadays is just a tiny stream more than a proper river.

In 2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name ( s ) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either català, " Catalan ", valencià, " Valencian ", or a combination of both català-valencià and català o valencià.

Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed that in articles relevant to the Valencian Community, the name " Valencian " was to be used ; on all other articles " Catalan " is preferred.

Valencian Left ( in Valencian: Esquerra Valenciana ) is a nationalist Valencian leftist party founded in the Valencian Community, founded in April, 1998 a group of ex-members of Unitat del Poble Valencià ( Valencian People's Union ) formed left this party and went to form a new political group using the vacant name of the historical Esquerra Valenciana.

In 2000 the vacant ERPV name was taken by the party resulting from the merge of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya's ( ERC ) Valencian section and the Front pel País Valencià ( Front for the Valencian Country ).