# Urci

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'''Urci''' was an ancient settlement in southeastern [Roman](/source/Roman_Empire) [Hispania](/source/Hispania) mentioned by [Pomponius Mela](/source/Pomponius_Mela), [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder), and [Claudius Ptolemy](/source/Claudius_Ptolemy).<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1451592/Urci |title=Urci |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=7 March 2009 |date=18 July 2008 |first=Chelsey |last=Parrott-Sheffer |publisher=[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica%2C_Inc.)}}</ref> The writings of these historians indicate that the city was located in the hinterland of what is now [Villaricos](/source/Villaricos), [Spain](/source/Spain), in the lower basin of the [Almanzora River](/source/Almanzora_(river)).{{r|EB}} Some modern encyclopedias and historians have wrongly located Urci at Pechina, El Chuche or the City of [Almería](/source/Almer%C3%ADa).

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](/source/Kelin) and Ikalesken (possibly [Iniesta](/source/Iniesta%2C_Cuenca)) 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](/source/Indaletius), a [Christian](/source/Christians) missionary of the 1st century (during the [Apostolic Age](/source/Apostolic_Age)), who is venerated as the [patron saint](/source/patron_saint) of [Almería](/source/Almer%C3%ADa), 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](/source/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](/source/Consejo_Superior_de_Investigaciones_Cient%C3%ADficas) |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](/source/titular_diocese) of the [Catholic Church](/source/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](/source/Diputaci%C3%B3n_de_Almer%C3%ADa) |language=es |access-date=3 November 2019}}</ref>

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== Bibliography ==
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  | last = Casado Baena
  | first = Mateo
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  | 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 =
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  | id =
  }}

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