Sagonte (in Spanish: Sagunto , and in Valencian: Sagunt , historically known under the name of Murviedro ) is a city of the autonomous Communauté of Valence, located at the east of the Spain, 25 km in the north of the town of Valence. It is an important historical center of the Iberian peninsula, in addition to industrial pole of the area.

Geography

Sagonte is located in the middle of a Comarque of the Province of Valence, the Camp of Morvedre , located at the north of the province, with the foot of the Sierra Calderona .

Sagonte has a population of approximately 60000 inhabitants divided out of two urban centres:

• 36000 in the district of the Port (port on the Mediterranean, developed at the XXe century, where industry and tourism concentrate, independent sources of richness of the municipality)

• 20000 around the historical center (old of more than twenty-five centuries, traditional culture of citrus fruits centers)

Hamlets

• Almardá .

• El Baladre .
• El Puerto .
• Partida of Gausa .
• Partida de Montiver .

Common neighbors

Sagonte is close

• in north: of Soneja, Alfondeguilla, Valley of Uxó, Almenara (of the Province of Castellón), Algar de Palancia, Cuart of the Valleys, Benavites, Benifairó of the Valleys, Faura,
• in the east: Canet de Berenguer and the Mediterranean,
• in the south: Puçol, Puig,
• in the west: Petrés, Waistcoat, Albalat de Taronchers, Estivella, Torres Torres, Alfara de Algimia,

all in the Province of Valence, except the four first.

History

Period pre-Roman

The first traces of passed of Sagonte go back to the Bronze Age. In Ve front century J. - C., at the time of the Ibère S, its inhabitants built walls to be protected from the dangers, they absorb the old villages and name Arse .

A great cultural development and economic follows, that the manufacture of currency and the commercial relations with the Greeks and Phéniciens endorses, but also awaking the competition with the close populations, in particular that of Teruel

Second Punic War and romanisation

This growth is slowed down by the conflict which bursts of the competition between Carthage and Rome: Sagonte takes the party of the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian army, under the direction of Hannibal, in the year 219 av. J. - C., completely destroys the city after eight month of seat and a legendary resistance of the inhabitants vis-a-vis the invader.

This event is at the origin of the Second Punic War then, after the victory of the Romans, a new process of expansion and of development initiates itself, the city is called from now on Saguntum .

The Middle Ages: period Hispano-Arabic and Kingdom of Valence

A strong recession is caused by the invasions of the Barbarians: Vandals and Visigoths, between Ve and VIIe centuries.

In VIIe century, the Arab invasion causes the depopulation of the area is peninsula. It is at that time that its name is again changed, Saguntum becomes Morbiter , then Murviedro (in Spanish) and Morverdre (or Molvedre as a Catalan), name preserved until in 1868 and who derive both from matured veteres (old walls) of the Middle Ages. Under the Moslem domination, the city knows a new splendor which leads to the construction of baths, palate, a Mosquée and schools.

In the year 1098, the city was temporarily taken by the Christians at the time of the campaigns of Cid Campeador, nevertheless the final reconquest occurred in 1238, when Jacques Ier d' Aragon says the conqueror, takes the city for the crown of Aragon then for the kingdom of Valence.

Xvi-XIXe centuries

The city having a strategic military position in the center of the kingdom of Aragon and thanks to its castle, undergoes heavy attacks on several occasions: by the royal army of Charles Quint at the time of the war against Germanic Valencian (1515-1523), the armies bourboniennes at the time of the war of succession of Spain (1701-1714), the War of Spain under Ier Worsens (1808-1814) and the Carlistes wars at several periods of the XIXe century.

In 1874, the pronunciamiento (coup d'etat) of the general Martínez Campos who raises the positioned troops with Sagonte, causes the Restoration of the bourbons under the figure of Alphonse XII of Spain

XX century

At the beginning of the XXe century, an iron and steel industry strongly develops, until in the years 1980, date of the closing of the last blast furnace, result of the economic crisis and industrial reorganization of Spain to allow its adhesion the EEC.

The city is then declared park industrial, which supports a greater diversification of its productive sector (cements, chemistry) and a specialization of the sidéro-metallurgical sector attracting the investments of large companies as the group Arcelor or the Thyssen Krupp .

As of the Sixties, the city benefits from the expansion of Spanish tourism industry to arrange its port and to develop a new urban center to approximately 5 km of old.

Tourism

• the historical center: dominated by the castle-extremely since which one can see the historical center, the Roman theater recently restored, the sea and the huerta, planted agricultural zone of orange trees.

Beaches:

• Beach of the Port of Sagonte

• Beach of Almardà
• Beach of Corinto-Malvarossa

Personality

• General Vicente Rojo Lluch

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