Alzira

Alzira is a town and district of 45,000 occupants in Valencia, eastern Spain. It is the capital of the comarca of Ribera Alta in the territory of Valencia. Alzira was established by the Muslim Moors under the name Jazirat Shukr which later ended up known as Jucar Island. It was a prosperous exchanging station amid the rule of the Muslim Moors which endured more than 500 years. Amid that time the city had a neighborhood authoritative government and was considered as a social center for scholars, rationalists, and law experts.

The city was vanquished by James I of Aragon on 30 December 1242. Alzira has verifiably been a walled town, encompassed by palm, orange and mulberry forests, and by low-lying rice-swamps, which rendered its neighborhood to some degree unfortunate. It is in some cases related to the Roman Saetabicula or with the pre-Roman Sucro. According to one source, the uprising at Sucro of 206 BC, squelched by Scipio Africanus, was at or close present-day Alzira, a couple of kilometers east of the mouth of the Sucro/Jucar River.