Kingdom of Valencia
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| Kingdom of Valencia | |||
| Former kingdom | |||
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| Motto: Scientia et misericordia ("Knowledge and compassion")
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| Capital | Chambéry | ||
| Largest city | Chambéry
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| Official language(s) | Martino | ||
| Demonym | Valenciano | ||
| - Adjective | Valencian | ||
| Government | Kingdom (constituent territory of the Victorian Empire)
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| Establishment | 1558 AN
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| Abbreviation | VAL | ||
The Kingdom of Valencia (Alexandrian: Royaume de Valencia; Martino: Reino de Valencia) was a historic kingdom in the southwest of Keltia, founded in 1558 AN and centered on its capital, Chambéry. It was the kingdom of the Valenciano people and, for the whole of its independent existence, a territory of the Victorian Empire.
Valencia lived within the Victorian world, sharing that empire's crown and government while keeping its own honors and identity around Chambéry. In 1583 AN it was incorporated into Alexandria, passing out of the Victorian orbit shortly before the Victorian Empire itself was subsumed into the Kingdom of Gotzborg in 1606 AN. Its lands and people later gave rise to two successor states, the State of Valentia of Gran Verionia and the modern Region of Valencia of Nouvelle Alexandrie.
Etymology
The kingdom and its people shared the name Valencia, which passed from the polity founded in 1558 AN to the Valenciano people who were its subjects. The same root produced the two later names carried by its successors: the Valentian line of Gran Verionia and the modern Region of Valencia. The origin of the name before 1558 AN is not recorded in surviving accounts.
History
Valencia existed as a kingdom for roughly a quarter-century, from its foundation in 1558 AN to its incorporation into Alexandria in 1583 AN, throughout that time a territory of the Victorian Empire.
Foundation
The Kingdom of Valencia was established in 1558 AN in the far southwest of Keltia, making its seat at Chambéry. It was the first polity of the Valenciano, an Alexandrian people who spoke Martino and whose culture bore both Alexandrian and Victorian influences. From its foundation the kingdom belonged to the wider Victorian world, and Chambéry remained the center of Valenciano life and, in time, the capital of the modern Region of Valencia.
Within the Victorian Empire
The Victorian Empire, the state in northwestern Apollonia that had grown from the earlier Kingdom of Victoria, governed Valencia through its central institutions. The imperial government was led by the Prime Minister of Victoria from Riego, drawing its ministers from the empire's dukes and lords, and Valencia sat under the Victorian crown alongside the empire's other territories. Its distance from the Victorian heartland left Chambéry the effective center of Valenciano affairs.
Incorporation into Alexandria
In 1583 AN Valencia passed from the Victorian world into the Alexandrian, when it was incorporated into Alexandria. The change came in the closing years of the Victorian Empire, which was itself absorbed into the Kingdom of Gotzborg in 1606 AN. Chambéry and its hinterland remained the heart of the Valenciano lands through the change of overlord.
Legacy and succession
The kingdom did not endure as a sovereign state, but the Valenciano people and the Valencian name did. To the east, the Valentian line was carried into what became the Kingdom of Valentia, later a state of Gran Verionia seated at Pizano. Around Chambéry, the older Valenciano homeland endured to be organized in 1686 AN as the Region of Valencia of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie, which preserves the kingdom's capital, its motto, and much of its identity.
Government and politics
Valencia was a kingdom under the Victorian crown rather than a fully independent state, governed within the framework of the Victorian Empire while administering its own affairs from Chambéry. Its distinguishing institution was the Order of the Valencian Star, the kingdom's own honor, which was conferred on retiring Valencian prime ministers of the empire in place of the imperial Order of Saint Andrew.
Geography
The Kingdom of Valencia lay in the far southwest of Keltia, geographically distant from the Victorian heartland in northwestern Apollonia to which it belonged. Its capital and principal center was Chambéry, and its lands took in the coasts and hinterland that the modern Region of Valencia would later inherit. Among its cities was Trévoux.
Culture
Valencian culture was that of the Valenciano, whose heritage combined Alexandrian and Victorian strands and whose language was Martino. The kingdom took as its motto Scientia et misericordia ("Knowledge and compassion"), still borne by the modern Region of Valencia, and its capital Chambéry accumulated a built heritage as the Valenciano seat that later grew to include the University of Chambéry.
Sport held a prominent place in Valencian life within the Victorian world. The kingdom sent its own national football and rugby league sides to imperial competition, and clubs such as the Trévoux Knights of Trévoux represented its cities.
