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'''Urci''' was an ancient settlement in southeastern Roman Hispania mentioned by Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Claudius Ptolemy.<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1451592/Urci |title=Urci |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 March 2009 |date=18 July 2008 |first=Chelsey |last=Parrott-Sheffer |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.}}</ref> The writings of these historians indicate that the city was located in the hinterland of what is now Villaricos, Spain, in the lower basin of the Almanzora River.{{r|EB}} Some modern encyclopedias and historians have wrongly located Urci at Pechina, El Chuche or the City of Almería.

Urci may be the town that emitted coins in the second century with the Iberian legend 'Urkesken', although these coins have some similarities with the coins of Kelin and Ikalesken (possibly Iniesta) from inland Valencia and eastern Cuenca.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=Las acuñaciones ibéricas meridionales, turdetanas y de Salacia en la Hispania Ulterior |first=Alicia |last=Arévalo |title=Historia monetaria de Hispania antigua |year=1997 |editor-first=Carmen |editor-last=Alfaro |editor-first2=Alicia |editor-last2=Arévalo |editor-first3=Marta |editor-last3=Campo |pages=206–207 |publisher=Jesus Vico S.A. |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/8097589 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9dzQgAACAAJ |isbn=9788485711178 |oclc=431964048}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Leandre |last=Villaronga |title=Corpus nummum Hispaniae ante Augusti aetatem: grados de rareza y valor en el mercado : algunas orientaciones para el coleccionista. Anexo |year=1994 |publisher=Herrero, Jose A. |page=329 |oclc=32590138 |isbn=9788460489672 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IRmAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

Saint Indaletius, a Christian missionary of the 1st century (during the Apostolic Age), who is venerated as the patron saint of Almería, Spain, is said by tradition to have evangelized the town of Urci and become its first bishop.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://digitum.um.es/digitum/bitstream/10201/16396/1/4771225611PB.pdf |title=Urci y san Indalecio |first=José |last=García Antón |pages=11–61 |access-date=3 November 2019 |publisher=Universidad de Murcia |journal=Digitum}}</ref> He may have been martyred at Urci.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/791/791 |title=San Indalecio: un patrón de Aragón en ciernes |first=José Ignacio |last=Gómez Zorraquino |doi=10.3989/hs.2019.016 |journal=Hispania Sacra |publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |volume=71 |issue=143 |date=January–June 2019 |issn=0018-215X |access-date=3 November 2019 |pages=221–232}}</ref> Urci is today a titular diocese of the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.dipalme.org/Servicios/Anexos/anexosiea.nsf/VAnexos/IEA-IAO-CAP2/$File/IAO-cap2.pdf |title=Las grandes etapas históricas de la diócesis de Almería |pages=77–150 |journal=Diputación de Almería |language=es |access-date=3 November 2019}}</ref>

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== Bibliography == * {{Cite journal | last = Casado Baena | first = Mateo | author-link = | title = Localizacion de la antigua ciudad de Urci y delimitacion de la frontera interprovincial entre las provincias Betica y Tarraconense en Tiempos de Tolomeo | journal = Gerion | volume = 25 | issue = 1 | pages = 391–400 | year = 2007 | url = | doi = | id = }}

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