“Stop usurping toponymy, Valencian country does not exist“. The Association of Families and Teachers of Alicante Languages and Education entered into a controversy over the use of this name by the Escola Valenciana, also by Yolanda Díaz, Íñigo Errejón and “the separatist journalists of TV3 and El Nacional” , which sparked controversy. by the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón.
“The Valencian Country is nothing other than a relegated name to the preamble of the Statute which never was or has never been something and if they want to refer to historical termslet them do it Kingdom of Valencewhich appears in the first article of the Statute of Autonomy, as a historical organization”, they underline.
Concretely, it is this other monarchical term easily identifiable in the bibliography and the documentation available in the archives, which is not used outside of this context because, obviously, currently the only kingdom in force is that of Spain .
From Languages and Education, they recall that “this is the territory conquered by the troops of James I In 1238 and who retained this name until 1707″, precisely a key military figure of the past and the formation of the current territory of the Valencian Community, as the nationalists have always affirmed.
After this reminder, this association from the school community of Alicante attacks this discourse based on the “Valencian country” promoted by sectors of “this humble county, where they want to appropriate the Kingdom”, in reference to the objective declared from the “Catalan countries. And they invite them to abandon this strategy: “Stop giving lessons indoctrination, hate And separatism“.
In this review or history lesson, Languages and Education ensures that the Valencian Community was officially established in 1982 after the approval of its Law of Autonomy. Between 1978 and 1982 there was only one project which ended up being called the Valencian Community, at which point it acquired autonomous powers. Before that and since 1833, the name Valencian Region was only the sum of the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, according to the formalization of the provincial organization of Spain, although the group of provinces with Murcia was called also Levante. According to the RAE: “Levante is the generic name for the Mediterranean regions of Spain, and in particular those corresponding to the ancient kingdoms of Murcia and Valencia”.
From this association “congratulate» to Carlos Mazon for having defended and “demanded respect for the name of the Valencian Community”, without forgetting the openly critical position that they have demonstrated with the Educational Freedom Law, since its approval: “It is not about freedom”.
“Next school year, 2025/2026, all families will discover that, after the investigation, the Valencian will impose In any case, between 40 and 60% of non-linguistic subjects, with the aggravating circumstance that it is the school councils, entities infected by identity politics, which will decide in which language the main subjects, the most important, are taught”, they predict about the voice in which mothers and fathers will choose the basic language of learning for their children.
