page_title: Moncada, Valencia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Moncada, Valencia / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Casa comuna de la Real Acequia de Moncada. .
context_page_description: Montcada, is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain.
context_section_description: The territory of the municipality of Montcada was the subject of an intense human occupation from the early days of Romanization. There are few data we have from earlier times. In the area known as the Xop and in some fields for extraction of clay for pottery, appeared a few fragments of ceramic belonging to handmade vessels and two arrowheads. Also before the Roman times is the Iberian settlement of Tos Pelat, which remaining parts of its walled town and were seen sections of the walls of the rooms, and were for a long time been collected fragments of Iberian vessels with geometric decoration painted and even whole pieces. We know the existence of two large rustic Roman villas, one in the departure of Pou  or Pousaig  and the other in the departure of Bordellet.  By the characteristics of the collected materials, both towns should to blossom during the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD.
  The origin of the population is attributed to the Iberian or Roman period, due to the archaeological materials found in its term. King James I in 1239 granted to the inhabitants of the conquered lands of Valencia, of all water and major medium and minor irrigation ditch, but literal, and expressly reserved the channel that was called Real, that it was going to Puzol, better known as "Royal Ditch of Moncada" that irrigate the most of the left bank of the River Turia, from Paterna to Puçol.  It extended the boundaries of irrigation on the twenty towns and thirteen districts that conform the irrigable area of the Royal Ditch of Moncada, specifically the populations of Quart de Poblet, Paterna, Burjassot, Godella, Rocafort, Moncada, Alfara of the Patriarch, Vinalesa, Bonrepos and Mirambell, Almàssera, Foios, Meliana, Albalat dels Sorells, Museros, Albuixech, Massalfassar, Massamagrell, La Pobla de Farnals, Rafelbunyol, El Puig and Puçol, and the hamlets of Benimàmet, Beniferri, Masarrojos, Benifaraig, Carpesa, Borbotó, Cases de Bàrcena, Mahuella, Tauladella, Rafalell and Vistabella.
  The first written documentation come from, however, of the time of the  Catalan conquest. Some years later, Montcada returned to crown and was changed to the Order of the Temple by the Farmhouse of Russafa in 1246 (to have greater strategic value by keeping the southern flank of the capital of the Kingdom). In 1248 the commander of the Templars granted Municipal corporationPopulation Charter and about in the same time was created the bailiff of Moncada, one of the richest of the Order of the Temple, and after the Order of Montesa, which was passed after being suppressed in the early 14th century.
  During the War of Succession in 1706, Moncada was occupied by the Bourbon army. This occupation lasted short time as Basset, Austracist general, forced it to raise its reals.
  After the Spanish Civil War, the city suffered a widespread destruction during the conflict and Salvador Rodrigo Rosalen is left in front of City Hall.
caption: Commune House of the Royal Acequia de Moncada.
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