Norcia
Norcia, traditionally known in English by its Latin name of Nursia, is a town and comune in the province of Perugia in southeastern Umbria, Italy. Unlike many ancient towns, it is located in a wide plain abutting the Monti Sibillini, a subrange of the Apennines with some of its highest peaks, near the Sordo River, a small stream that eventually flows into the Nera.
- Type: Town with 2,730 residents
- Description: Italian commune
- Also known as: “054035” and “Norcia (Italy)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Norcia Abbey and Cathedral.
Norcia Abbey
Church
Photo: Starlight, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fiano di Abeto and Avendita.
Avendita
Hamlet
Norcia
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Perugia, Umbria, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.7924° or 42° 47′ 33″ north
Longitude
13.0929° or 13° 5′ 35″ east
Population
2,730
Elevation
618 metres (2,028 feet)
Open location code
8FJMQ3RV+X5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Norcia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نورتشا”
- Arabic: “نورتشيا”
- Armenian: “Նորչա”
- Basque: “Norcia”
- Breton: “Norcia”
- Bulgarian: “Норча”
- Catalan: “Norcia”
- Cebuano: “Norcia”
- Chechen: “Норча”
- Chinese: “Norcia”
- Chinese: “诺尔恰”
- Czech: “Norcia (Italy)”
- Czech: “Norcia”
- Czech: “Nursie”
- Danish: “Norcia”
- Dutch: “Norcia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نورتشا”
- Esperanto: “Norcia”
- Estonian: “Norcia vald”
- Estonian: “Norcia”
- Finnish: “Norcia”
- French: “Norcia”
- French: “Nursie”
- German: “Norcia (Italy)”
- German: “Norcia”
- Greek: “Νόρτσα”
- Hebrew: “נורסיה”
- Hungarian: “Norcia”
- Indonesian: “Norcia”
- Interlingua: “Norcia”
- Irish: “Norcia”
- Italian: “Comune di Norcia”
- Italian: “Norcia”
- Japanese: “ノルチャ”
- Kazakh: “Норча”
- Korean: “노르차”
- Kurdish: “Norcia”
- Ladin: “Norcia”
- Latin: “Nursia Valeria”
- Latin: “Nursia”
- Lombard: “Norcia”
- Luxembourgish: “Norcia”
- Macedonian: “Норча”
- Malay: “Norcia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Norcia”
- Neapolitan: “Norcia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norcia”
- Norwegian: “Norcia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Norcia”
- Persian: “نورچا”
- Persian: “نورکیا”
- Piemontese: “Norcia”
- Polish: “Norcia”
- Polish: “Nursja”
- Portuguese: “Nórcia”
- Portuguese: “Núrcia”
- Romanian: “Norcia”
- Russian: “Норча”
- Sardinian: “Norcia”
- Scots: “Norcia”
- Serbian: “Norcia”
- Serbian: “Норча”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Norcia”
- Sicilian: “Norcia”
- Slovenian: “Norcia”
- South Azerbaijani: “نورچا”
- Spanish: “Norcia”
- Spanish: “Nursia”
- Swedish: “Norcia”
- Tagalog: “Norcia”
- Tatar: “Норча”
- Turkish: “Norcia”
- Ukrainian: “Норчія”
- Urdu: “نورشیا”
- Uzbek: “Norcia”
- Venetian: “Norcia”
- Volapük: “Norcia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Norcia”
- Wu Chinese: “诺尔恰”
- “Norcia”
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