Medellín
Medellín is a village in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, notable as both the birthplace of Hernán Cortés in 1485 and the site of the Battle of Medellín, during the Peninsular War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: municipality in the province of Badajoz, Spain
- Also known as: “06080”, “Medellin”, “Medellín, Spain”, and “Metellinum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Medellín and Roman Theatre of Metellinum.
Roman Theatre of Metellinum
Archaeological site
Roman Theatre of Metellinum is an archaeological site.
Monument to Hernán Cortés
Work of art
Photo: Luis Rogelio HM, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Monument to Hernán Cortés is an instance of public art dedicated to Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire, erected in his native town of Medellín, Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mengabril.
Mengabril
Village
Photo: Adolfobrigido, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mengabril is a municipality located in Badajoz Province, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the municipality has a population of 442 inhabitants. Mengabril is situated 4 km southeast of Medellín.
Medellín
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.964° or 38° 57′ 51″ northLongitude
-5.958° or 5° 57′ 29″ westPopulation
1,740Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)Open location code
8CCPX27R+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 252468989OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6355945Wikidata ID
Q668384
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Medellín” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Medellín, Spanje”
- Afrikaans: “Medellín”
- Albanian: “Medellín, Spanjë”
- Albanian: “Medellín”
- Arabic: “مدلين”
- Arabic: “ميديلاين”
- Aragonese: “Medellín”
- Armenian: “Մեդելյին”
- Asturian: “Medellín”
- Basque: “Medellín”
- Belarusian: “Медэлін”
- Belarusian: “Мэдэльін”
- Breton: “Medellín”
- Bulgarian: “Меделин”
- Catalan: “Medellín”
- Cebuano: “Medellín”
- Chechen: “Медельин”
- Chinese: “Medellín”
- Chinese: “梅德林”
- Chinese: “麦德林”
- Crimean Tatar: “Medelyin”
- Czech: “Medellín”
- Danish: “Medellín”
- Dutch: “Medellín”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدلين”
- Esperanto: “Medellín”
- Extremaduran: “Medellín”
- French: “Medellín”
- Galician: “Medellín, Badaxoz”
- Galician: “Medellín”
- Georgian: “მედელიინი”
- German: “Medellín”
- Hungarian: “Medellín”
- Irish: “Medellin”
- Italian: “Medellín”
- Italian: “Medellìn”
- Japanese: “メテリナム”
- Japanese: “メデリン”
- Ladin: “Medellin”
- Lithuanian: “Medeljinas”
- Lombard: “Medellín (Spagna)”
- Lombard: “Medellín”
- Luxembourgish: “Medellín”
- Macedonian: “Меделјин”
- Macedonian: “Медељин”
- Malay: “Medellín, Sepanyol”
- Malay: “Medellín”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Medellín”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Medellín”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Medellín”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Medellín”
- Ossetian: “Медельин”
- Persian: “مدیین”
- Polish: “Medellín”
- Portuguese: “Medellín”
- Romanian: “Medellín”
- Russian: “Медельин”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Medellín”
- Slovak: “Medellín”
- Slovenian: “Medellín”
- South Azerbaijani: “مدیین”
- Spanish: “Medellín”
- Spanish: “Villa de Medellín”
- Swedish: “Medellín, Spanien”
- Swedish: “Medellín”
- Tatar: “Медельин”
- Turkish: “Medellín”
- Ukrainian: “Медельїн”
- Venetian: “Medellín”
- Vietnamese: “Medellín”
- Waray (Philippines): “Medellín, Espanya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Medellín”
- “Medellín”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de Hernán Cortés and Plaza de Santa Cecilia.
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