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 1254 VALENTIA. int^ the Savus not fur from the town of Basante (Plin. iii. 28, where some read Valdanus or Va- dasus) ; its modern name is Bosna. [L. S.] VALE'NTIA (Eth. Valentinus: Nuragm), a town in the interior of Sardinia, SE. of Usellis. It seems to have been a considerable place, as the Valentini are one of the few names which Pliny thou2;ht it worth while to mention amont; the Sardinian towns. Ptolemy also notices the Valen- tini among the tribes or •' populi " of the island, and there can be little doubt that the Valeria of the same author is only a false reading for Valentia. (Plin. iii. 12. s. 17; Ptol. iii. 3. §§ 6, 7.) Its remains are still visible at a village called Nuragus, near the town of Isili, about 12 miles from the ruins of Usellis. The adjoining di.strict is still called Parte Vakma. (De la IMarmora, Vog. en Sarclaigne, vol. ii. p. 407.) [E.H. B.] VALE'NTIA, the later name of a Roman province in the S. part of Britannia Barbara, or of the country lying N. of the Picts' wall, as far as Graham's Dike, including Northumberland, Dumfries, &c. This district was wrested from the Picts and Scots in the time of Valentinian, and formed by Theodosius into a Roman province, but it remained only a short time in tlie po.ssession of the Romans. (Ammian. Marc, xxviii. 3; Not. Imp.) [T. H. D.] VALE'NTIA {ObaXiVTiu, Ptol. ii. 6. § 62), a considerable town of the Edetani in Hispania Tar- raconensis, situated on the river Turium, at a dis- tance of 3 miles from its mouth, and on the road from Carthago Nova to Castulo. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4 ; Vib. Seq. p. 18; Itin. Ant. p. 400.) Ptolemy (J. c.) erroneously attributes it to the Contestani. It became at a later period a Roman colony (Plin. I. c), in which apparently the consul Junius Bru- tus settled the soldiers of Viriathus. (Liv. Epit. Iv.) Pompey destroyed it. (^Epist. Pomp. ap. Sullust, ed. Corte, p. 965; cf. Plut. Pomp. 18.) It must, however, have been restored soon afterwards, since iIela mentions it as being still an important place (ii. 6), and coins of it of a late period are pre- served. (Cf. Florez, Med. ii. p. 610, iii. p. 125; Mionnet, i. p. 55. Suppl. i. p. 110; Sestini, p. 209; Eckhel, i p. 60.) The town still bears the same name, but has few antiquities to show. [T. H. D.] COIN OF VALENTIA IN SPAIN. VALE'NTIA (OuoAei/Tio), in Gallia Narbonensis, a colonia in the territory of the Cavari, as Pliny says (iii. 4); but D'Anville proposes to alter the mean- ing of this passage of Pliny by placing a full stop between " Cavarum " and " Valentia." However, Valentia (^Valence') was not in the country of the Cavari, but in the territory of the Segallauni, as Ptolemy (ii. 10. § 12) says, who calls it '' colonia." Valence is a town on the east bank of the Rlione, a few miles below the junction of the here. In the middle ages it was the capital of the Valentinois, and in the fifteenth century it became the seat of a university. [G. L.] VALLUJI ROMANUJI. VALENTIA, in Bruttium. [Hipponium.] VALEPONGA or VALEBONGA, a town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Laminium to Caesaraugusta. (^Ilin. Ant. p. 477.) Variously identified with Val de Meca and Valsalobre. [T. H. D.] VALE'RIA, the name of the NE. part of Lower Pannonia, which was constituted as a separate province by the emperor Galerius, and named Va- leria in honour of his wife. (Aurel. Vict, de Caes. 40; Amm. xvi. 10, sxviii. 3.) This province was bounded on the E. and N. by the Danubius, on the S. by the Savus, and on the W. by Lake Peiso. (Comp. Pannonia, p. 531, and Muchar, Norikum, vol. i. p. 3.) [L. S.] VALE'RIA (Oi)a€pio, Ptol. ii. 6. § 58), a town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Sucro. At a later period it became a Roman colony in the jurisdiction of Carthago Nova. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4.) Now Valera la Vieja, with ruins. (Cf. Flo- rez, Esp. Sagr. viii. p. 198, with v. p. 19, and vii. p. .59.) ■ [T. H.D.] VALERIANA (BaXipiava, Procop. de Aed. iv. 6), a place in Jloesia Inferior. (Zfm. Ant. p. 220.) Probably near Ostova. [T. H. D.] VALI (Ovdoi, Ptol. v. 9. § 21), a people of Asiatic Sarmatia, between Mount Ceraunus and the river Rha. (Plin. vi. 7. s. 7.) [T. H. D.] VALINA {Ovdeiva or BaKiva). a place in Upper Pannonia, commonly identified with the modern Valhach. (Ptol. ii. 15. § 6.) [L. S.] VALLA. [Balla.] VALLATA, a town of the Astures in Hispania Tan-aconensis, between Asturica and Interamnium. {Itin. Ant. pp. 448, 453.) Variously identified with Baneza, Puente de Orvijo, S. Martin de Camino, and Villar de Majardin. [.T. H. D.] VALLATUJI, a town in Vindelicia, not far from the S. bank of the Danubius, on the road from Regi- num to Augusta Vindelicorinn ; it was the station of tlie staff' of the third legion and the second Valerian squadron of cavalry. {It. Ant. p. 250; Not. Imp.) It occupied, in all probability, the same site as the modern Wahl, on the little river Ilm. [L. S.] VALLIS PENNINA, or POENINA, as the name is written in some inscriptions, is the long valley down which the Rhone flows into the Lake of Geneva. In the Notitia of the Gallic Pro- vinces all the inhabitants of this valley are included in the name Valienses, for we read " Civitas Val- lensium, hocest, Octodurum." [Octodurus.] But there were four peoples in the Vallais, as it seems, Nantuates, Veuagri, Seduni, and Viberi. The name Vallis Pennina went out of use. and it was called Pagus Vallensis. The name Vallis is pre- served in that of the canton Wallis or Vallais, which is the largest valley in Switzerland. [Gallia Transalpina, Vol. I. p. 950; Rhodanus.] [G.L.] VALLUM ROMANUJL Under this title we propose to give a short account of the remarkable work constructed by the Romans across our island, from near the mouth of the Tgne on the E. to the Solway Frith on the W., and of which considerable remains still exist. The history of the formation of this line of fortification is involved in a good deal of obscurity, and very different opinions have been entertained respecting its authors; and neither the Latin writers nor the inscriptions hitherto found among the ruins of the wall and its subsidiary works are sufficient to settle the disputed points, though they suggest conjectures more or less probable.