Medina-Sidonia
Medina Sidonia is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. Considered by some to be the oldest city in Europe, it is used as a military defence location because of its elevation.
- Type: Town with 10,100 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “Medina Sidonia”
- Postal code: 11170
- Neighbors: Alcala de los Gazules, Jerez de la Frontera, and Tarifa
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de Santa María la Coronada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castle of Torre-estrella and Paterna de Rivera.
Castle of Torre-estrella
Locality
Paterna de Rivera
Village
Medina-Sidonia
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.45767° or 36° 27′ 28″ north
Longitude
-5.92727° or 5° 55′ 38″ west
Population
10,100
Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES MSA
Open location code
8C8PF35F+33
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Medina-Sidonia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شذونة”
- Arabic: “ميدينا-سايدنيا”
- Aragonese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Armenian: “Մեդինա-Սիդոնիա”
- Asturian: “Medina Sidonia”
- Basque: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Belarusian: “Медына-Сідонія”
- Breton: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Catalan: “Medina Sidonia”
- Catalan: “Medina-Sidònia”
- Catalan: “Shaduna”
- Catalan: “Xadúna”
- Cebuano: “Medina Sidonia”
- Cebuano: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Chechen: “Медина-Сидония”
- Chinese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Chinese: “錫多尼亞城”
- Chinese: “锡多尼亚城”
- Czech: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Danish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Dutch: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شذونه”
- Esperanto: “Medina Sidonia”
- Esperanto: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Finnish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- French: “Medina Sidonia”
- French: “Medina-Sidonia”
- French: “Médina-Sidonia”
- Galician: “Medina Sidonia”
- Georgian: “მედინა-სიდონია”
- German: “Medina Sidonia”
- German: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Greek: “Μεδίνα-Σιδόνια”
- Haitian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Hebrew: “מדינה-סידוניה”
- Hungarian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Indonesian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Interlingua: “Medina Sidonia”
- Interlingue: “Medina Sidonia”
- Irish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Italian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Japanese: “メディナ＝シドニア”
- Ladin: “Medina Sidonia”
- Latin: “Asidonia”
- Lithuanian: “Medina Sidonija”
- Lombard: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Malay: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Medina Sidonia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Medina-Sidonia”
- Persian: “مدینا-سیدونیا”
- Polish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidónia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidônia”
- Portuguese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina-Sidónia”
- Romanian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Russian: “Медина Сидония”
- Russian: “Медина-Сидониа”
- Russian: “Медина-Сидония”
- Russian: “Сидония”
- Slovak: “Medina-Sidonia”
- South Azerbaijani: “مدینا-سیدونیا”
- Spanish: “Asidonense/Sidoniano”
- Spanish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Spanish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Swedish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Tatar: “Медина-Сидония”
- Turkish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Turkish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Ukrainian: “Медіна-Сідоніа”
- Ukrainian: “Медіна-Сідонія”
- Urdu: “مدینہ-سیدونیا”
- Venetian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Vietnamese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Medina-Sidonia”
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