Denia

Denia is a historical coastal town in the province of Alicante, Spain, at the Costa Blanca midway among Alicante and Valencia, and the capital and judicial seat of the comarca of Marina Alta. Considered to be one of the maximum lovely and culturally rich towns in Spain; Denia has an immense historical historical past, with Iberian, Greek, Roman, Islamic, Napoleonic and Christian civilizations having all left their mark. As of 2014, it had a population of 41,672, although this will be greater than doubled by means of tourism all through the summer season months.

There is proof of human habitation within the area due to the fact prehistoric times and there are huge Iberian ruins at the hillsides close by. In the 4th century BC it changed into a Greek colony of Marseille or Empuries, being cited by Strabo as Hemeroscopion that means calendar, and later known as Hemeroscopium. It changed into an best friend of Rome throughout the Punic Wars, and later turned into absorbed into the Roman Empire underneath the call of Dianum after their goddess Diana. In the first century BC Quintus Sertorius established a Roman naval base here.

In 636-696 AD, at some stage in the Visigothic Kingdom of Iberia, it turned into the seat of a bishop from Toledo. After the Muslim conquest of Iberia and the dissolution of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Denia referred to as Dāniyah or in Arabic which means that lowland have become the capital of a taifa nation that reigned over a part of the Valencian coast and Ibiza. The Slavic Muslim slaves, saqalibah, led with the aid of Muyahid ibn Yusuf ibn Ali their leader, who may want to take take advantage of the revolutionary crumbling of the Caliphate's superstructure to benefit manipulate over the province of Denia.