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Manuel Simó Marín
Manuel Simó Marín (1868-1936) was a Spanish right-wing politician. Until 1919 for some 30 years he remained engaged in Carlism; in 1909-1917 he was heading the regional Valencian branch of the movement and formed part of the national Carlist executive. Following brief attempts to build a Christian-democratic party in the early 1920s, in the 1930s he emerged among leaders of Derecha Regional Valenciana. His political career climaxed in 1914–1916, when during one term he served in Congreso de los Diputados, the lower chamber of the Cortes. During few strings he was also member of the Valencian Diputación Provincial (elected or nominated in 1905, 1921, 1930 and 1934) and the Valencian ayuntamiento (elected in 1899, 1911, and 1931). He is also known as founder of the local daily, ''Diario de Valencia''. Family and youth The Simó family has been noted already in the Middle Ages, first recorded in Aragón, Catalonia, at the Levantine coast and the Baleares. Over centuries it go ...
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Ontinyent
Ontinyent ( es, Onteniente) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is situated on the banks of the Clariano River, a tributary of the Xúquer, and on the Xàtiva–Alcoi railway. Ontinyent is near the Sierra de Mariola Natural Park. Ontinyent is a historic city with many baroque churches, aristocratic mansions, city walls, the palace of the Dukes of Almodòver and a 16th century bridge alongside newer apartment buildings and modern retail. The city has been known for its production of cloth, paper, brandy, furniture and earthenware and its trade in cereals, wine, almonds and olive oil. Juan Roig, Spanish billionaire and president of Mercadona, went to school in Ontinyent. History Evidence of human settlement in the area dates back to the end of the Neolithic period, as suggested by excavations at the Castellar site between the Barranco dels Tarongers and the Barranco del Averno in Bocairent. Sites occupied duri ...
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