Sobre el nombre de la ciudad ibérica y romana de Villajoyosa y la ubicación del topónimo Alonís/Alonai/Allon

Here we review the argumentation we made ten years ago, in our Doctoral Thesis, about the identification of Alonis/Alonai/Allon with the Iberian and Roman city of Villajoyosa, analyzing other authors' recent publications on the same matter and the new archaeological evidences. This site was the main centre in the Marina Baixa region and a quite outstanding one in the Valencian coasts in Iberian and Roman times (reaching the rank of Roman municipium). All this, together with the importance of monuments and finds, makes it unlikely not to find repeatedly its name in Greek and Roman writers and itineraries. In the same way, Alonis/Alonai/Allon are place-names mentioned in ancient texts (the last one several times). We analyze here the coherence of our hypothesis (about identifying those mentioned name-places with Villajoyosa) with those ancient texts. As such, we can couple the privileged unnamed city with the repeated name without a concrete location.