Sollana

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| subdivision_name3 = Ribera Baixa

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| leader_title = Alcalde

| leader_name = Alicia Hervás Serra

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Sollana is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera Baixa in the Valencian Community, Spain. The municipality includes a second village: El Romaní.

Situated on the floodplain of the Júcar River,{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2jVKDwAAQBAJ |title= Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape |author= Sarah R. Hamilton |date=2018 |publisher= University of Washington Press |access-date=18 January 2019|page=10}} the Sollana region is where rice was first grown in Spain 1,200 years ago,{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KnybDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT19 |title= La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain's Mediterranean Coast |author= Jeff Koehler |date=2016 |publisher= Chronicle Books |access-date=18 January 2019|page=20}} and is also the heartland of the famous Spanish dish paella.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yHhpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |title= What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions |author= Robert L. Wolke |date=2014 |publisher= Courier Corporation |access-date=18 January 2019|page=42}} The economy of the area is still based mainly on agriculture: rice, oranges and livestock.

File:Convent de Sollana.jpg In the early Middle Ages, Sollana was a small Visigothic settlement. Later, records from the al-Andalus period name it Sulyanah, chief village of a region including the hamlets of Romaní, Alcahecia and Trullás. After the Reconquista in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon gave it to his vassal Ximén d'Urrea, and it eventually ended up part of the Dukedom of Híjar. In January 1932, during the Second Spanish Republic, anarchists briefly declared a Soviet Republic of Sollana.{{cite web |url= http://www.levante-emv.com/comarcas/2012/01/15/sollana-erigio-republica-sovietica/872586.html |title= Cuando Sollana se erigió en república soviética], diario |author= Levante-EMV |access-date=15 January 2012}}

The patron saint of Sollana is Mary Magdalene. She is celebrated annually in the summer festivities, which begin on her feast day, July 22, and continue through August 14, when the city council throws a "night of the paellas" in the city centre, and end in late August with a traditional bullring.