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Spanish city almost entirely enclosed in Latin road (8)

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I believe the answer is:

valencia

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'spanish city' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'almost entirely enclosed in latin road' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'entirely' becomes 'all' (all can mean entirely or completely).
'enclosed' becomes 'enc' (abbreviation for 'enclosed' as in letters).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'latin road' becomes 'via' (I have seen 'Roman road ' mean 'via' so perhaps 'road' could also mean 'via'. I am not sure about the 'latin' bit.).
'all' with its final letter taken away is 'al'.
'al'+'enc'='alenc'
'alenc' placed inside 'via' is 'VALENCIA'.

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(Other definitions for valencia that I've seen before include "port in the Med" , "somewhere in Spain)" , "Spanish port" , "European area" , "Region and major port of eastern Spain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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