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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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: سيلفس
  • Arabic: شلب
  • Asturian: Silves
  • Basque: Silves (Portugal)
  • Basque: Silves
  • Bishnupriya: সিইভেস
  • Breton: Silves
  • Catalan: Silves
  • Catalan: Xilb
  • Cebuano: Silves (parokya)
  • Cebuano: Silves
  • Chechen: Силвиш
  • Chinese: Silves
  • Chinese: 錫爾維什
  • Chinese: 锡尔维什
  • Danish: Silves
  • Dutch: Silves (Portugal)
  • 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
  • Occitan (post 1500): Silves
  • Ossetian: Силвиш
  • Persian: سیلوس مونیسیپالیتی، پرتغال
  • Persian: سیلوس
  • Polish: Silves
  • Portuguese: Município de Silves
  • Portuguese: Silves
  • Romanian: Silves
  • Russian: Силвеш
  • 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
  • Vietnamese: Silves, Bồ Đào Nha
  • Volapük: Silves
  • Waray (Philippines): Silves (munisipyo)
  • Waray (Philippines): Silves Municipality
  • Waray (Philippines): Silves, Portugal
  • Welsh: Silves
  • Silves

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Silves”. Photo: Hovallef, CC BY-SA 4.0.