Ourique

Ourique, officially the Town of Ourique, is a city in the District of Beja in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,389, in an area of 663.31 km2. This town is traditionally considered the site of the famous Battle of Ourique in 1139, which saw the forces of Portuguese Prince Afonso Henriques defeat a Muslim Almoravid force.
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  • Town with 1,710 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 241 metres (791 feet)
  • …is also known as “Ourique Municipality”
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Câmara Municipal de Ourique.
Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town hall.

Ourique

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Latitude
37.65111° or 37° 39′ 4″ north
Longitude
-8.22373° or 8° 13′ 25″ west
UN/LOCODE
PT ORQ
Open location code
8C9HMQ2G+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25264849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2265386
Wiki­data ID
Q519052

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Ourique” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوريك”
  • Basque: “Ourique”
  • Catalan: “Ourique”
  • Cebuano: “Ourique”
  • Chechen: “Орике”
  • Chinese: “欧里基”
  • Chinese: “歐里基”
  • Dutch: “Ourique”
  • Esperanto: “Ourique”
  • Finnish: “Ourique”
  • French: “Ourique”
  • Galician: “Ourique”
  • German: “Ourique”
  • Hebrew: “אוריקה”
  • Irish: “Ourique”
  • Italian: “Ourique”
  • Japanese: “オーリーキ”
  • Japanese: “オーリッケ”
  • Japanese: “オウリーキ”
  • Japanese: “オウリケ”
  • Japanese: “オウリッケ”
  • Kazakh: “Орике”
  • Korean: “Ourique”
  • Korean: “오리크”
  • Lombard: “Ourique”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ourique”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Ourique”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ourique”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ourique”
  • Norwegian: “Ourique”
  • Novial: “Ourique”
  • Polish: “Ourique”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Ourique”
  • Portuguese: “Ourique”
  • Russian: “Орике”
  • Spanish: “Ourique”
  • Tatar: “Орике”
  • Turkish: “Ourique”
  • Ukrainian: “Оріке”
  • Urdu: “اوریکو”
  • Vietnamese: “Ourique”
  • Volapük: “Ourique”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ourique”

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