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They are uncertain the |orígenes| of the Vinaròs city. By remounting us until the Iberian town of "the Puig".It there was a farmhouse on the banks of the sea, understanded the XIII century as of the " Beni, Al, Arus ". Mentioned this farmhouse, in the settlers' title deed ( 29 September 1241 ), that it is converted in a Christian town after the Peñíscola conquest for the James I king, in 1233 , by receiving the Bynalaroç name. In the age it intercedes depended of the castle of Peñíscola, just as the neighboring Benicarló, until freed and began a growth that the converted in the main capital of the north of the Valencian community. In the XVI century it knew the movement of the thieve's slang, by taking part in favor of the corona, which was of value you, the year 1540, the title of villa. It had a port of the more important thing of the Mediterranean, with some big dockyards, in which it is built big ships. For this port entrained to him the more than 15.000 moriscoes expeled of the kingdom in 1609.During centuries, Vinaroz suffered the attacks of the Morisco pirates and, for it, as in the whole Valencian coast, find to him towers of vigilance and watch, with the function to inform to the population in the case of danger: it is the case of the denominate popularly " |dels| turret Moslem ", that is at present in ruins.In the century XIX, it counted on a local militia for the defense of the city and it is built a wall that it surrounded it. With the support that it lent itself to the throne during the Carlist wars, the Isabel II queen, conceded you, in 1862, the title of " very noble and loyal villa ". and in the year 1881 graduated as the Alfonso XII monarch, the title of city.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaroz

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