Carthaginem conveniunt populi LXV...the following towns, enjoying the rights of ancient Latium... and the Valerienses. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3-25.
The Roman city of Valeria is located in central Spain, south of Cuenca in the Sierra Alta region. Proconsul Gaius Valerius Flaccus founded the city between 93 and 82 BC after conquering the indigenous Celtiberians. Given the military climate at the time, the Romans built the city on a narrow, well-defended plateau perched on a cliff. Valeria was also designed as a settlement for colonists, and it soon became one of the administrative, economic and commercial centers of the new Roman region.