[1] As an ideology, it has had varying levels of social and political influence since the nineteenth century, contributing to the consolidation of self-government in the Valencian Community as a political entity tracing its origins to the Ancient Kingdom of Valencia.
[4] Historically, Valencianism originates in the 19th century as a cultural movement during the Renaixença, a period of time where intellectuals tried to recover the culture status for the Valencian language after centuries of diglossia and the suppression of the Kingdom of Valencia under Bourbon absolutism with initiatives like the Floral Games held by Lo Rat Penat.
[2] The symbolical birthdate of Valencianism is considered to be 1902, when Faustí Barberà reads De regionalisme i valentinicultura.
[8] In the 1960s Joan Fuster i Ortells emerged as a referent of a modern Valencianism, the Fusterianism[9][10] that broke with the discourse of the regionalism allowed by the state.
[8] The importance given by the Fusteranists to the cultural and linguistic unity of the Catalan Countries, concept that became central in his proposal,[1] would explain the emergence of the blaverism, an anti-Catalanist Valencian regionalism.