Orikum
Orikum is a town and a former municipality in Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. With the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality Vlorë.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: town in Albania
- Also known as: “Orik” and “Pashalimani”
- Address: VLORË
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Gjon Boçari and Church of Marmiroi.
Castle of Gjon Boçari
Photo: Fatjon Saliu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Castle of Gjon Boçari is a castle of the 16th and 17th century in Tragjas, Albania. Castle of Gjon Boçari is situated 3 km southeast of Orikum.
Church of Marmiroi
Church
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Marmiroi church is a church near Pashaliman, Vlorë County, Albania. It is declared a Cultural Monument of Albania. The church is mentioned in historical records for the first time in 1307. Church of Marmiroi is situated 3½ km southwest of Orikum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tragjas.
Tragjas
Village
Tragjas is a community in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. With the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Vlorë. Tragjas is situated 3 km east of Orikum.
Orikum
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bashkia e Orikumit, Vlorë, Vlorë County, Coastal Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.32684° or 40° 19′ 37″ northLongitude
19.47488° or 19° 28′ 30″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
8FGX8FGF+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 713605590OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3184575Wikidata ID
Q947125
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Orikum” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Orikumi”
- Bulgarian: “Орикум”
- Catalan: “Orikum”
- Cebuano: “Orikum (kapital sa munisipyo sa Albanya)”
- Cebuano: “Orikum”
- Cebuano: “Orikumi”
- Chinese: “奧里庫姆”
- Czech: “Orikumi”
- Dutch: “Orikum”
- French: “Orikum”
- German: “Orikum”
- Hungarian: “Orikum”
- Hungarian: “Orikumi”
- Irish: “Orikum”
- Italian: “Orikum”
- Japanese: “オリクム”
- Lithuanian: “Oriku”
- Macedonian: “Орикум”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orikum”
- Persian: “اوریکوم”
- Polish: “Orikum”
- Portuguese: “Orikum”
- Romanian: “Orikum”
- Russian: “Орикум”
- Spanish: “Orikum”
- Swedish: “Orikum (kommunhuvudort i Albanien)”
- Swedish: “Orikum”
- Swedish: “Orikumi”
- Tatar: “Орикум”
- Turkish: “Orikum”
- Turkish: “Paşalimanı, Arnavutluk”
- Ukrainian: “Орікум”
- Vietnamese: “Orikum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orikum”
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