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(), officially (),〔 is a city in the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain. The city is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital (Castelló de la Plana), which it is separate from by the Mijares (or Millars) River. it has 51,367 inhabitants (2010 data), most of them living in the urban area that covers about 10.72% of its ''comarca's'' 55.4 km2 surface. Ranked by population, it is the second-largest city in the province (after the capital), and fifteenth in the Valencian Community. The city was founded with royal status by King James I of Aragon in 1274 during his campaign to regain Muslim territory in present-day Valencia during the Reconquista. It later became an agricultural centre for orange cultivation, and more recently a centre for the ceramics industry. == Name == Both the Castilian Spanish ''Villarreal'' and Valencian Catalan ''Vila-real'' are cognates meaning 'Royal Village', due to the city's foundation by King James I of Aragon. Throughout the Middle Ages, as were most European settlements, it was known by its Latinised name ''Villae Regalis''. A 1592 tapestry of the Valencian Parliament shows the city's representative with the old Valencian name ''Vilareal''. It was in the late 18th century, as Spain became more centralised, that the Castilian name took over. The city was renamed in 1939, after the Spanish Civil War, as ''Villarreal de los Infantes'' (Royal Town of the Infantes), to avoid confusion with other Spanish localities with the same name. It is sometimes still referred to under this extended version. On 27 February 2006, after a campaign which started in the 1980s, the Valencian form became the only official name for the city, after a unanimous vote by the city council.〔 Inhabitants of the city are known as ''vila-realencs'' (male) or ''vila-realenques'' (female) in Valencian, and ''villarrealenses'' in Spanish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Villarreal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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