a vibrant, cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean coast
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Major garrison city on the east coast; seat of the Republican government from November 1936.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian/Catalan: València /va'łεnsia/) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Land of Valencia.