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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,710 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Ourique Municipality”
- Neighbors: Odemira, Santiago do Cacém, and Silves
Places of Interest
Highlights include Câmara Municipal de Ourique.
Câmara Municipal de Ourique
Town hall
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Câmara Municipal de Ourique is a town hall.
Ourique
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Ourique, Ourique Municipality, Beja District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.65111° or 37° 39′ 4″ northLongitude
-8.22373° or 8° 13′ 25″ westPopulation
1,710Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT ORQOpen location code
8C9HMQ2G+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 25264849OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “Ourique”
- Chinese: “奧里基”
- Dutch: “Ourique”
- Esperanto: “Ourique”
- Finnish: “Ourique”
- French: “Ourique”
- Galician: “Ourique”
- German: “Ourique”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Ourique”
- Volapük: “Ourique”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ourique”
- “Ourique”
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