Silves

Silves is a city in the . It was the capital of the nominal Kingdom of the Algarve and is of great historical importance.
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  • Type: Locality with 10,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Município de Silves”, “Silves Municipality”, “Silves, Portugal”, “Xilb”, “Силвеш”, and “سيلفس”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Silves

Latitude
37.2242° or 37° 13′ 27″ north
Longitude
-8.4418° or 8° 26′ 31″ west
Population
10,700
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Open location code
8C9H6HF5+M7
Geo­Names ID
8012027
Wiki­data ID
Q749180
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Silves” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شلب”
  • Asturian: “Silves”
  • Basque: “Silves (Portugal)”
  • Basque: “Silves”
  • Bishnupriya: “সিইভেস”
  • Breton: “Silves”
  • Catalan: “Silves”
  • Cebuano: “Silves (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Silves”
  • Chechen: “Силвиш”
  • Chinese: “錫爾維什”
  • Chinese: “锡尔维什”
  • Danish: “Silves”
  • Dutch: “Silves”
  • Esperanto: “Silves”
  • Finnish: “Silves”
  • French: “Silves”
  • Galician: “Silves”
  • Georgian: “სილვეში”
  • German: “Silves”
  • Hebrew: “סילבס, פורטוגל”
  • Hungarian: “Silves”
  • Irish: “Silves”
  • Italian: “Silves”
  • Japanese: “シルヴェス”
  • Korean: “실베스”
  • Ladino: “Silves”
  • Lombard: “Silves (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Silves”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Silves, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Silves”
  • Mazanderani: “سیلوس مونیسیپالیتی، پرتغال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Silves”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silves”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silves”
  • Norwegian: “Silves”
  • Novial: “Silves, Portugal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Silves”
  • Ossetian: “Силвиш”
  • Persian: “سیلوس”
  • Polish: “Silves”
  • Portuguese: “Silves”
  • Romanian: “Silves”
  • Russian: “Силвиш”
  • Scots: “Silves, Portugal”
  • Scots: “Silves”
  • Serbian: “Silves”
  • Serbian: “Силвес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silves, Portugal”
  • Slovenian: “Silves”
  • Spanish: “Silves”
  • Swedish: “Silves”
  • Tatar: “Силвиш”
  • Thai: “ซิลวึช”
  • Turkish: “Silves”
  • Ukrainian: “Сілвеш”
  • Urdu: “سلویز، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Silves, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Volapük: “Silves”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Silves (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Silves, Portugal”
  • Welsh: “Silves”
  • “Silves”

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