VALE´RIA
VALE´RIA (
Οὐαλερία,
Ptol. 2.6.58), 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. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) Now
Valera la Vieja, with ruins. (Cf. Florez,
Esp. Sagr. viii. p. 198, with v. p. 19, and vii. p. 59.)
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