El poblament dispers en la diòcesi de València segons la relació de 1791 manada recopilar per l’arquebisbe Fabián y Fuero

Abstract

In 1791, Archbishop Fabián y Fuero ordered the compilation of a list of all the statistical and geographical information of an ecclesiastical nature of the diocese of Valencia, for the Ecclesiastical Nomenclature that Floridablanca, Secretary of State, intended to publish, completing the 1787 Census and the Civil Nomenclature of 1789. This was not published, but the collection provides invaluable ecclesiastical and geographical information. A synthesis of the evolution of the Valencian dispersed settlement is made since medieval times and, subsequently, the dispersed settlement in 1791 is studied. It can be seen how in the 18th century there was a population growth, which caused a growth of the dispersed population that was distributed unequally. In the irrigated areas, it was concentrated in l’Horta de València and the surroundings of the main cities and towns of the Kingdom of Valencia, such as Xàtiva, Gandia, Dénia and La Vila Joiosa. In the dry land we find two areas where it is predominant, the northern Valencian counties to the north of the Millars River, and the southern counties to the south of Xàtiva and the Caroig mountains, such as the Vall d’Albaida, the Muntanya and the Marina Baixa.