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Different findings show various settlements in this land. Since the prehistoric times with deposits of late Neolithic, villages of the bronze age, of the Iberians, of the Romans, of the witch is known the existence of small agricultural settlements, but in no case they are situated on the which after will be the city center of the medieval city. Ontinyent is documented since the XI century as hisn untinyân situated in the villa, the oldest part of the city. That doesn´t mean which his foundation didn´t is the oldest because the name of untinyân, is pre-Islamic, possibly a name of Latin origin.
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Of age hispano-muslim belong to the groups of artificial caves, finestres del pou clar or covetes del moros situated between the ravines of Ontinyent and Bocairent destined to granary or store for security.
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The incorporation into the new kingdom of Valencia it produced in 1244 and for his border character the King Jaume I names it villa real with voting in the courts. The medieval period is characterized by being situated in the border with Castilla. The problems and incidents are continuous warlike this is why the early time were not easy for the people coming from north to consolidate the occupation and settlement in a dangerous frontier land.
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In 1585 segregation occurs of Agullent to become municipality.
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With the expulsion of the moors in the year 1609 and involvement of the ontiñentinos in the reprobation of many of the populations Moorish of the region even some populations from the regions near them, makes that during few years the demography have a strong backward. At the same time occurs the restructuring of the factors productive with a profound crisis of manufacturing wool Ontiñentina.
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The effects of the succession war were considerable: The hunger was the most terrible crisis demography of the period. Ontinyent had due pay a big contribution of war for liberate from looting. The defeat in the battle of Almansa (25 – April – 1707) that meant the derogation of the statutory order and the death certificate of the personality politics of the kingdom of Valencia, with the loss of privileges and self-government.
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Is from then in the XVIII century Ontinyent will benefit from its position in the economic area textile of Alcoi-ontinyent, embryo of the future development of the Valencia textile. However not the main driver of growth onteniense will not be textile manufacturing if not the field, with a very dynamic commercial agriculture which involves the expansion of cultivated area and the proliferation of lodges that are developed until the XIX.
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The XIX century is characterized by a very turbulent period, full of social movements, political transformations, economic changes and the emergence of a new society, headed by the social relations of capitalist type.
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The XX century is the era of the great transformations of the city, which remained far from agrarian base while the industry is still embryonic, though that is highlighting on textile.
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Ontinyent in 1904 received the title of city; in 1660 the king Felipe IV had already offered the adquisocion of this title which the city renounces.
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In 1927 Fontanars dels Alforins segregates with extends part of municipal term become an independent municipality.
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Is from then in the 50s when the city will live a decisive period of industrialization, the shift from an agrarian society into an industrial and urban transformations in deep frantic growth of new neighborhoods, its spread and industrial sites that continue to the present days.
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