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".
- Type: Town with 23,400 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the Province of Chieti, Italy
- Also known as: “069058”, “Ortona a Mare”, and “Ortona Mare”
Places of Interest
Highlights: 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… Arielli is situated 5 km northwest of Ortona.
Ortona
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Chieti, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.3496° or 42° 20′ 59″ north
Longitude
14.4039° or 14° 24′ 14″ east
Population
23,400
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
Open location code
8FJP8CX3+VH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- 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”
- Urdu: “اورٹونا”
- Uzbek: “Ortona”
- Venetian: “Ortona”
- Vietnamese: “Ortona”
- Volapük: “Ortona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ortona”
- Wu Chinese: “奥尔托纳”
- “Ortona”
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