Elvas

Elvas is a city of 23,000 people in the region of . Elvas is among the finest examples of intensive usage of the trace italienne in military architecture.
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  • Type: City with 15,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Befestigungsanlagen von Elvas”, “Elvas Municipality”, “Elvas, Portugal Municipality”, “Município de Elvas”, “エルヴァシュ”, and “埃尔瓦斯的驻军边境城镇及其防御工事”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Castle of Elvas and Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort.

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The is a medieval military…

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The , officially Conde…

Fort
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is located in Alentejo, in the city of Elvas, district of Portalegre, in .

Elvas

Latitude
38.8806° or 38° 52′ 50″ north
Longitude
-7.1637° or 7° 9′ 49″ west
Population
15,300
Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PT ELV
Open location code
8CCJVRJP+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25612845
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2268615
Wiki­data ID
Q243849
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Elvas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الواس”
  • Aragonese: “Elvas”
  • Armenian: “Էլվաշ”
  • Asturian: “Elvas”
  • Basque: “Elvas”
  • Belarusian: “Элваш”
  • Breton: “Elvas”
  • Catalan: “Elvas”
  • Cebuano: “Elvas”
  • Chechen: “Элваш”
  • Chinese: “埃爾瓦什”
  • Croatian: “Elvas”
  • Czech: “Elvas”
  • Dutch: “Elvas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الواس”
  • Esperanto: “Elvas”
  • Finnish: “Elvas”
  • French: “Elvas”
  • Galician: “Elvas”
  • Georgian: “ელვაში”
  • German: “Elvas”
  • Hebrew: “אלוואס”
  • Hebrew: “אלווש”
  • Hindi: “एल्वस”
  • Hungarian: “Elvas”
  • Irish: “Elvas”
  • Italian: “Elvas”
  • Japanese: “エルヴァス”
  • Korean: “엘바스”
  • Lithuanian: “Elvasas”
  • Lombard: “Elvas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Elvas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Elvas”
  • Macedonian: “Елваш”
  • Maltese: “Elvas”
  • Mazanderani: “الواس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Elvas”
  • Mingrelian: “ელვაში”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elvas”
  • Norwegian: “Elvas”
  • Novial: “Elvas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Elvas”
  • Persian: “الواس”
  • Polish: “Elvas”
  • Portuguese: “Elvas”
  • Romanian: “Elvas”
  • Russian: “Элваш”
  • Serbian: “Elvas”
  • Serbian: “Елвас”
  • Slovak: “Elvas”
  • Spanish: “Elvas”
  • Swedish: “Elvas”
  • Tatar: “Элваш”
  • Thai: “แอลวัช”
  • Turkish: “Elvas”
  • Ukrainian: “Елваш”
  • Vietnamese: “Elvas”
  • Volapük: “Elvas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elvas”
  • “Elvas”

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Places to explore: Centro Histórico de Elvas and Bairro Rui de Mello.

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