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The fishing village of Valdez, one of the most important ports in Alaska, was named after the Spanish naval officer Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán, in 1790.

The city of Valdez was badly shaken in the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake when the glacial silt under the city liquefied and caused a section of the city's shoreline to break off and sink into the sea.

Valdez was also in the news for the 1989 oil spill from the tanker the Exxon Valdez as the ship was leaving the port.

Valencia, the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, is located on the banks of the Turia River, on the east coast of the Iberian peninsula on the Gulf of Valencia of the Mediterranean Sea.

Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC and occupied by the Visigoths, the Moors and the Catalan and Aragonese.

Valencia is famous for its cuisine which includes paella – a simmered rice dish that includes seafood or meat (chicken and rabbit), fartons, buñuelos, Spanish omelette, rosquilletas and squid (calamares). The primary oranges developed and grown in Southern California are named after the city of Valencia.

Notable people associated with Valencia include Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and Lucrezia Bori.

Valletta, the capital of the island nation of Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, is a World Heritage site with buildings dating from the 16th century.

Valparaiso, the third largest city in Chile and one its most important seaports, served as a stopover for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, through the Straits of Magellan. With the opening of the Panama Canal the importance of Valparaiso faded.

The city, once called “Little San Francisco”, has a mild Mediterranean climate and is vulnerable to earthquakes.

Notable people associated with Valparaiso include Salvadore Allende, Pablo Neruda and Ruben Dario.

Vancouver, a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada, is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s.

Vancouver is an ethnic diverse city with over half the residents not speaking English as their first language. Vancouver is considered the most livable city, tied with Vienna.

Varanasi (also known as Benares), on the Ganges River in northeast India, is regarded as a holy city by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest in India.

Varanasi is referred to as “the city of temples”, “the city of lights”, and “the city of learning.”

As an industrial center Varanasi was famous for its muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture.

Notable people associated with Varanasi include Ravi Shankar, Premchand, Annie Besant.

“Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.” ~ Mark Twain in Following the Equator

• Cities of India

State of the Vatican City, a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy, is an ecclesiastical (sacerdotal-monarchical) state, ruled by the Bishop of Rome — the Pope.

Vatican City has an area of approximately 110 acres or 44 hectares, and a population of just over 800. It was established in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy.