Valentia
Οὐαλεντία
Valentia (Οὐαλεντία), in Gallia Narbonensis, a colonia in the territory of the Cavari, as Pliny says (3.4); but D'Anville proposes to alter the meaning of this passage of Pliny by placing a full stop between Cavarum
and Valentia.
However, Valentia (Valence) was not in the country of the Cavari, but in the territory of the Segallauni, as Ptolemy (2.10.12) says, who calls it colonia.
Valence is a town on the east bank of the Rhone, a few miles below the junction of the Isère. In the middle ages it was the capital of the Valentinois, and in the fifteenth century it became the seat of a university.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.