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.- 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.
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″ north
Longitude
-8.22373° or 8° 13′ 25″ west
Population
1,710
Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT ORQ
Open location code
8C9HMQ2G+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “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”
- “Ourique”
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