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  Colspan "2" style="text-align: center font-size: 09em" Map of Negros Oriental showing the location of Valencia
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HISTORY


Valencia was originally named Ermita, which means "a secluded place", due to its being a refuge from marauding Muslim pirates. In 1856 it was renamed to Nueva Valencia by Spanish colonizers, in honor of its parish priest Fr. Matias Villamayor from Valencia , Spain .

In 1920 it was renamed Luzuriaga in behalf of Don Carlos Luzuriaga, a delegate from Negros island to the Philippine Legislature who promised town officials he would work hard to help improve the town. The promise was unfulfilled, prompting local leaders in 1941 to agree to revert to the old name Nueva Valencia.

In 1948 , right after World War II, then Mayor Rodolfo "Odol" V. Gonzalez Sr. and his Municipal Council officially adopted the name Valencia for the town, dropping out "Nueva".


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