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The University of Valencia (; also known by the acronym " UV ") is a university located in the Spanish city of Valencia . It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain , and the oldest in the Valencian Community , and is regarded as one of Spain ' s leading academic institutions . The University was founded in 1499 , and currently has around 55 , 000 students . Most of the courses ___MASK47___ given through the medium of Spanish , but the university has promised to increase the amount of courses available in Valencian . Moreover , in some degrees part of the teaching is in English . Pope ___MASK28___ XI , born ___MASK85___ Damiano Achille Ratti ( 31 ___MASK97___ 1857  10 February 1939 ), reigned as Pope from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939 . He was the first sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 . He took as his papal motto , " Pax Christi in Regno Christi ," translated " The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ ." Pope Saint ___MASK28___ X , born ___MASK22___ Melchiorre Sarto , ( 2 June 1835  20 August 1914 ) was Pope from August 1903 to his death in 1914 . He was canonized in 1954 . ___MASK28___ X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine , promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology . His most important reform was to order the codification of the first Code of Canon Law , which collected the laws of the Church into one volume for the first time . He was also considered a pastoral pope , in the sense of encouraging personal holiness , piety and a daily lifestyle reflecting deep Christian values . He was born in the town of Riese , which would later append " Pio X " ( ___MASK28___ X ' s name in Italian ) to the town ' s name . Andalusia is a Spanish region established as ___MASK60___ autonomous community . It is the most populated and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country . The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as " historical nationality ". The territory is divided into eight provinces : Almería , Cádiz , Córdoba , Granada , Huelva , Jaén , Málaga and Seville . Its capital is the city of Seville ( Spanish : " Sevilla "). Pope ___MASK79___ XXIII ( born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , ; 25 November 18813 June 1963 ) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014 . Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy . He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts , including papal nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria , Greece and Turkey . In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal - Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice . The old town of a city or town is its historic or original core . Although the city is usually larger in its present form , ___MASK20___ cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations . There are ___MASK20___ places throughout the world named " old town " ( and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized ). This is a list of some famous old towns : The United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations ( UN ) based in ___MASK52___ . Its declared purpose is to contribute to ___MASK58___ and security by promoting international collaboration through educational , scientific , and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice , the rule of law , and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter . It is the heir of the League of Nations ' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation . Venice (; ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region . It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that ___MASK47___ separated by canals and linked by bridges . These ___MASK47___ located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon , ___MASK60___ enclosed bay that ___MASK98___ between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers . Parts of Venice ___MASK47___ renowned for the beauty of their settings , their architecture , and artwork . The lagoon and a part of the city ___MASK47___ listed as a World Heritage Site . Turkey , officially the Republic of Turkey ( Turkish : ), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia , mainly in Anatolia in Western ___MASK19___ , with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . Turkey is a democratic , secular , unitary , parliamentary republic with a diverse cultural heritage . Turkey is bordered by eight countries : Greece to the west ; Bulgaria to the northwest ; Georgia to the northeast ; Armenia , the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east ; and Iraq and Syria to the south . The Aegean Sea is to the west , the Black Sea to the north , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . The Bosphorus , the Sea of Marmara , and the Dardanelles , which together form the Turkish Straits , divide Thrace and Anatolia ; they also separate Europe and ___MASK19___ . Turkey ' s location has given it geopolitical and strategic importance throughout history . Saint ___MASK35___ de Ribera was born in the city of Seville , Spain , on 20 March 1532 and died in Valencia on 6 ___MASK26___ 1611 . Ribera was one of the most influential figures of his times , holding appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia , patriarch of ___MASK78___ , Commander in Chief , president of the Audiencia , and Chancellor of the University of Valencia . He was beatified in 1796 and canonized by Pope ___MASK16___ XXIII in 1960 . ___MASK78___ on the Orontes ( also Syrian ___MASK78___ ) was an ancient Greco - Roman city on the eastern side of the Orontes River . Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya , Turkey , and lends the modern city its name . Lombardy ( Lombard : " Lombardia ", ) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy , in the northwest of the country , with ___MASK60___ area of 23 , 844 square kilometres ( 9 , 206 sq mi ). About 10 million people , forming one - sixth of Italy ' s population , live in Lombardy and about a fifth of Italy ' s GDP is produced in the region , making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest regions in Europe . Milan , Lombardy ' s capital , is the second - largest city and the largest metropolitan area in Italy . Pope ___MASK28___ XII , born ___MASK10___ Maria ___MASK22___ ___MASK76___ Pacelli ( 2 March 18769 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope from 2 March 1939 to his death in 1958 . Before his election to the papacy , Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs , papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917  1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State , in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations , most notably the " Reichskonkordat " with Nazi Germany , with which most historians believe the Vatican sought to protect the Church in Germany while Adolf Hitler sought the destruction of " political Catholicism ". A pre - war critic of Nazism , ___MASK28___ XII lobbied world leaders to avoid war and , as Pope at the outbreak of war , issued " Summi Pontificatus ", expressing dismay at the invasion of Poland , reiterating Church teaching against racial persecution and calling for love , compassion and charity to prevail over war . Santa ___MASK84___ is a titular church of Rome , on the Aventine Hill , for Cardinal - priests . It is recorded as the " Titulus Priscae " in the acts of the 499 synod . The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that ___MASK47___ located primarily in Europe . It has ___MASK60___ area of , and ___MASK60___ estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed ___MASK60___ internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and ___MASK62___ affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . The Valencian Community , or the Valencian Country , is ___MASK60___ autonomous community of Spain . It is the fourth most populated after Andalusia , Catalonia and Madrid with more than 4 . 9 million inhabitants . It is often homonymously identified with its capital Valencia , which is Spain ' s third largest city . It is located along the Mediterranean coast in the south - east of the Iberian peninsula . It borders with Catalonia to the north , Aragon and Castile  La Mancha to the west , and Murcia to the south . It is formed by the provinces of Castellón , Valencia and Alicante . A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations , specifically by UNESCO . Sites ___MASK47___ selected on the basis of having cultural , historical , scientific or some other form of significance , and they ___MASK47___ legally protected by international treaties . UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the collective interests of humanity . The Archivo General de Indias (" General Archive of the Indies "), housed in the ancient merchants ' exchange of Seville , Spain , the " Casa Lonja de Mercaderes ", is the repository of extremely valuable archival documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines . The building itself , ___MASK60___ unusually serene and Italianate example of Spanish Renaissance architecture , was designed by Juan de Herrera . This structure and its contents were registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its ___MASK11___ surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by ___MASK96___ , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with ___MASK60___ African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Western Europe , also West Europe , is the region comprising the western part of the European continent . There ___MASK97___ be differences between the geopolitical and purely geographic definitions of the term . Seville is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville , Spain . It is situated on the plain of the river Guadalquivir . The inhabitants of the city ___MASK47___ known as " sevillanos " ( feminine form : " sevillanas ") or " hispalenses ", after the ___MASK74___ name of the city , " Hispalis ". Seville has a municipal population of about 703 , 000 , and a metropolitan population of about 1 . 5 million , making it the fourth - largest city in Spain and the 30th most populous municipality in the European Union . Its Old Town , with ___MASK60___ area of , contains three UNESCO World Heritage Sites : the Alcázar palace complex , the Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies . The Seville harbour , located about from the Atlantic Ocean , is the only river port in Spain . Seville is also the hottest major metropolitan area in the geographical Western Europe , with summer average high temperatures of above . Syria , officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (""), is a country in Western ___MASK19___ , bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west , Turkey to the north , Iraq to the east , Jordan to the south , and Israel to the southwest . Syria ' s capital and largest city is Damascus . Sevillanas ___MASK47___ a type of folk music and dance of Seville and its region . They were derived from the Seguidilla , ___MASK60___ old Castilian folk music and dance genre . In the nineteenth century they were influenced by Flamenco . They have a relatively limited musical pattern but ___MASK47___ rich in lyrics based on country life , virgins , country towns , neighborhoods , pilgrimage , and love themes . They ___MASK47___ sung by a plethora of local groups , like the " Los Romeros de la Puebla ", " Los Amigos de Gines ", " Las Corraleras de Lebrija ", " Cantores de Hispalis ", and " Los del Río ". Every year , dozens of new " sevillanas " on CD ___MASK47___ published . A " metropolitan area ", sometimes referred to as a " metro area " or ___MASK1___ " metro ", is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less - populated surrounding territories , sharing industry , infrastructure , and housing . A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities : neighborhoods , townships , boroughs , cities , towns , exurbs , suburbs , counties , districts , states , and even nations like the eurodistricts . As social , economic and political institutions have changed , metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions . Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas , as well as satellite cities , towns and intervening rural areas that are socio - economically tied to the urban core , typically measured by commuting patterns . The Patriarch of Venice is the ordinary bishop of the ___MASK74___ Catholic Archdiocese of Venice . The bishop is one of the few patriarchs in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church ( currently three other Latin sees are accorded the title of Patriarchate : Lisbon , the East Indies and Jerusalem ). Presently , the only advantage of this purely formal title is the bishop ' s place of honor in papal processions . In the case of Venice ___MASK60___ additional privilege allows the patriarch , even if he is not a cardinal , the use of the colour red in non - liturgical vestments . The red biretta , however is still topped by a tuft , as is the custom with other bishops who are not cardinals . The pope ( from " pappas ", a child ' s word for " father ") is the Bishop of Rome and , therefore , the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . The primacy of the ___MASK74___ bishop is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter , to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of " binding and loosing ", naming him as the " rock " upon which the church would be built . The current pope is Francis , who was elected on 13 March 2013 , succeeding Benedict XVI .