Cheste
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| name = Cheste
| settlement_type = Municipality
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| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Valencian Community}}
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Valencia
| subdivision_type3 = Comarca
| subdivision_name3 = Hoya de Buñol
| subdivision_type4 = Judicial district
| subdivision_name4 = Chiva
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| elevation_m = 218
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| area_total_km2 = 71.40
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| population_demonym = Chestano/a
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| population_density_km2 = auto
| blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s)
| blank_info_sec1 = Spanish[https://www.avl.gva.es/municipis/ Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua: Noms dels municipis valencians] (In Valencian)
| timezone = CET
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 46380
| area_code_type = Dialing code
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| leader_title = Alcalde
| leader_name = David Domenech Perez(2007)
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| website = {{official website|http://www.cheste.es}}
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Cheste is a municipality in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community, Spain, located 26 km from the capital Valencia.
History
According to the Valencian historian Escolano, the first settlers of the region of Cheste were members of Iberian tribes belonging to the old Edetania. This view is supported by numerous remains, particularly those of El Castillarejo (Iberian ceramics and spear points from the Bronze Age).
The Cheste hoard, a cache of gold jewellery and silver coins, was discovered in the locality of La Safa in 1864. The presence of Carthaginian coinage issued by the Barcids alongside an early Roman denarius implies the hoard dates to around the time of the Second Punic War.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U86A9w9xiDcC&pg=PA29|title=Roman Republican Coinage|last=Crawford|first=Michael H.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2001|isbn=9780521074926|location=Cambridge|pages=29|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=van Alfen|first1=Peter G.|last2=Almagro-Gorbea|first2=Martín|last3=Ripollès|first3=Pere Pau|date=2008|title=A New Celtiberian Hacksilber Hoard, c. 200 BC|jstor=43580315|journal=American Journal of Numismatics|volume=20|pages=265–293}}
Sport
About five kilometers to the east of the town is the "Circuit de Valencia", a motor sport race track which has hosted the Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix since 1999.
Bordering localities
References
External links
- [http://www.cheste.es Official site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060610125948/http://cheste.org/ Photographs]
- [https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.494471,-0.685616&spn=0.009155,0.017653&t=k&hl=en Cheste on Google Maps]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080520113312/http://cheste.comunitatvalenciana.com/ Cheste from the Valencian Agency of Tourism]
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Category:Municipalities in the Province of Valencia
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