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JATIVA (formerly written XATIVA)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 280 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JATIVA (formerly written XATIVA)  , Or See also:SAN FELIPE DE See also:JATIVA, a See also:town of eastern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Valencia, on the right See also:bank of the See also:river Albaida, a tributary of the Jitcar, and at the junction of the Valencia-See also:Murcia and Valencia-See also:Albacete See also:railways . Pop . (1900), 12,600 . Jativa is built on the margin of a fertile and beautiful See also:plain, and on the See also:southern slopes of the See also:Monte Bernisa, a See also:hill with two peaks, each surmounted by a See also:castle . With its numerous fountains, and spacious avenues shaded with elms or cypresses, the town has a clean and attractive See also:appearance . Its collegiate See also:church, dating from 1414, but rebuilt about a See also:century later in the See also:Renaissance See also:style, was formerly a See also:cathedral, and is the See also:chief among many churches and convents . The town-See also:hall and a church on the castle hill are partly constructed of inscribed See also:Roman See also:masonry, and several houses date from the Moorish occupation . There is a brisk See also:local See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:fruit, See also:wine, oil and See also:rice . Jativa was the Roman Saetabis, afterwards See also:Valeria See also:Augusta, of Carthaginian or Iberian origin . See also:Pliny (23-79) and See also:Martial (c . 4o-1o2) mention the excellence of its See also:linen See also:cloth . Under the Visigoths (c .

483-711) it became an episcopal see; but See also:

early in the 8th century it was captured by the See also:Moors, under whom it attained See also:great prosperity, and received its See also:present name . It was reconquered by See also:James I. of See also:Aragon (1213-1276) . During the 15th and 16th centuries, Jativa was the See also:home of many members of the princely See also:house of See also:Borgia or Borja, who migrated hither from the town of Borja in the province of See also:Saragossa . See also:Alphonso Borgia, afterwards See also:Pope See also:Calixtus III., and Rodrigo Borgia, afterwards Pope See also:Alexander VI., were natives of Jativa, See also:born respectively in 1378 and 1431 . The painter Jusepe See also:Ribera was also born here in 1588 . Owing to its gallant See also:defence against the troops of the See also:Archduke See also:Charles in the See also:war of the See also:Spanish See also:succession, Jativa received the additional name of San Felipe from See also:Philip V . (1700-1746) .

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