Editing Villarreal (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Generalitat corts vilareal.jpg|thumb|left|The city's name, ''Vilareal'', adorns its representative in a tapestry of the 1592 [[Corts Valencianes|Valencian Parliament]].]]
Both the [[Castilian Spanish]] ''Villarreal'' and [[Valencian language|Valencian]] ''Vila-real'' are [[cognate]]s meaning 'Royal Village', due to the city's foundation by King [[James I of Aragon]]. Throughout the [[Middle Ages]], as were most European settlements, it was officially known by its Latinised name ''Villae Regalis''. A 1592 tapestry of the [[Corts Valencianes|Valencian Parliament]] shows the city's representative with the old Valencian name ''Vilareal''. It was in the late 18th century, as Spain became more centralised, that the Castilian name took over.  The city was renamed in 1939, after the [[Spanish Civil War]], as ''Villarreal de los Infantes'' (Royal Town of the [[Infante]]s), to avoid confusion with other Spanish localities with the same name. It is sometimes still referred to under this extended version.<ref name="top1">{{cite web|author=quality-Datenbank Klaus Gebhardt e.K. |url=http://www.top500.de/cities/v/villarreal_de_los_infantes_spain.php |title=Villarreal de los Infantes in Spain (Espana) |publisher=Top500.de |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref>

On 27 February 2006, the municipal corporation voted the Valencian name to become the exclusive official name for the municipality.<ref name=medit>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/vilareal/2007/02/20/toponimo-vila-real-oficial-efectos-42801581.html|website=El Periódico Mediterráneo|title=El topónimo Vila-real ya es oficial a todos los efectos|date=20 February 2007}}</ref> The agreement was thus published in the ''[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]]'' in January 2007, and the dual official name Villarreal/Vila-real removed.<ref name=medit /><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Decreto 180/2006, de 1 de diciembre, por el que se aprueba el cambio de denominación del municipio de Villarreal/Vila-real por la forma exclusiva en valenciano Vila-real|journal=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]]|date=30 January 2007|page=4490|issn=0212-033X|url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/01/30/pdfs/A04490-04490.pdf}}</ref>

Inhabitants of the city are known as ''vila-realencs'' (male) or ''vila-realenques'' (female) in Valencian, and ''villarrealenses'' in Spanish.