Montitxelvo (), co-officially ''Montichelvo'' (), is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the ''comarca'' of

Vall d'Albaida Vall d'Albaida (; ) is a ''Comarques of the Valencian Community, comarca'' in the Provinces of Spain, province of Valencia (province), Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Etymology The name of the ''comarca'' is derived from the Hispano-Arab ...

in the

province of Valencia Valencia ( , ), officially València (), is a provinces of Spain, province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's 2.7 million people (2024), almost one-third live in the capital, Valencia, whic ...

and the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...

, Spain. The municipality spans across a total area of 8.16 km² and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 571. In old sources, the placename is documented as ''Montichervo''. After 1612, the place was ethnic cleansed of ''

morisco ''Moriscos'' (, ; ; "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam. Spain had a sizeable Mus ...

s'' and resettled by

Old Christian Old Christian (, , ) was a social and law-effective category used in the Iberian Peninsula from the late 15th and early 16th century onwards, to distinguish Portuguese and Spanish people attested as having cleanliness of blood, known as Limpieza ...

References

Municipalities in the Province of Valencia {{valencia-geo-stub