Alcira

Alcira, a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia; on the left bank of the river Jucar , and on the Valencia-Alicante railway . Pop. (1900) 20,572. Alcira is a walled town, surrounded by palm, orange and mulberry groves, and by low-lying rice-swamps, which render its neighborhood somewhat unhealthy. Silk, fruit and rice are its chief products. It is sometimes identified with the Roman Saetabicula. In the middle ages it was a prosperous Moorish trading-station.