Ortona
Ortona is a coastal town and municipality of the Province of Chieti in the Italian region of Abruzzo, with some 23,000 inhabitants. In 1943, Ortona was the site of the bloody Battle of Ortona, known as "Western Stalingrad".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,400 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the Province of Chieti, Italy
- Also known as: “069058”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ortona railway station and Battle of Ortona 1943 Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arielli.
Arielli
Hamlet
Arielli is a village and comune in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, central-eastern Italy, located on a hill overlooking the spring area of the homonymous river. Arielli is situated 5 km northwest of Ortona.
Ortona
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Chieti, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.3496° or 42° 20′ 59″ northLongitude
14.4039° or 14° 24′ 14″ eastPopulation
23,400Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)Open location code
8FJP8CX3+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 70990834OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6539830Wikidata ID
Q51256
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ortona” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورتونا”
- Aragonese: “Ortona”
- Armenian: “Օրտոնա”
- Basque: “Ortona”
- Belarusian: “Артона”
- Breton: “Ortona”
- Bulgarian: “Ортона”
- Catalan: “Ortona”
- Cebuano: “Ortona”
- Central Bikol: “Ortona”
- Chechen: “Ортона”
- Chinese: “Ortona”
- Chinese: “奥托纳”
- Danish: “Ortona”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ortona”
- Dutch: “Ortona”
- Esperanto: “Ortona”
- Finnish: “Ortona”
- French: “Ortona”
- German: “Ortona”
- Greek: “Ορτόνα”
- Hebrew: “אורטונה”
- Hungarian: “Ortona”
- Interlingua: “Ortona”
- Irish: “Ortona”
- Italian: “Comune di Ortona”
- Italian: “Ortona a Mare”
- Italian: “Ortona”
- Japanese: “オルトーナ”
- Javanese: “Ortona”
- Kazakh: “Ортона”
- Korean: “오르토나”
- Kurdish: “Ortona”
- Ladin: “Ortona”
- Latin: “Ortona”
- Latvian: “Ortona”
- Lithuanian: “Ortona”
- Lithuanian: “Ortonas”
- Lombard: “Ortona”
- Macedonian: “Ортона”
- Malay: “Ortona”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ortona”
- Neapolitan: “Ortona”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ortona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ortona”
- Norwegian: “Ortona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ortona”
- Persian: “اورتونا”
- Piemontese: “Ortona”
- Polish: “Ortona”
- Portuguese: “Ortona”
- Romanian: “Ortona”
- Russian: “Ортона”
- Scots: “Ortona”
- Serbian: “Ortona”
- Serbian: “Ортона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ortona, Chieti”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ortona”
- Sicilian: “Ortona”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورتونا”
- Spanish: “Ortona”
- Swahili: “Ortona”
- Swedish: “Ortona”
- Tagalog: “Ortona”
- Tatar: “Ортона”
- Turkish: “Ortona”
- Ukrainian: “Ортона”
- Uzbek: “Ortona”
- Venetian: “Ortona”
- Vietnamese: “Ortona”
- Volapük: “Ortona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ortona”
- Wu Chinese: “奥尔托纳”
- “Ortona”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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