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ALCIRA, eastern Spain, province of Valencia; on the left bank of the river Jucar. Pop. (1930) 21,232. Alcira is a walled town, surrounded by palm, orange and mulberry groves, and by low-lying and unhealthy rice-swamps. Silk, fruit, rice and cabinet woods are its chief products. It has a Roman bridge and has been thought to be the Roman Saetabicula or Suer(); it was later a Moorish trading station.