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Elvas (), officially the City of Elvas (), is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about east of Lisbon, and about west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The municipality population was 23,078, in an area of . The city itself had a population of 16,640 .
Elvas is a Portuguese city in the Alentejo region near the Spanish border, historically important as a fortress and former bishop's seat. It matters as a strategically positioned frontier town that once played a defensive role between Portugal and Spain, located roughly midway between Lisbon and the Spanish city of Badajoz.
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Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Elvas
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- City of Elvas
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-elv1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- ELV.png
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe
- yes
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe point
- none
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Alto Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Portalegre
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 7
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- Independent
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Rondão Almeida
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 631.29
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 23,078
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.holiday
- January 14
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município de Elvas
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Upper Alentejo
- Contains
- Barbacena e Vila Fernando
- Population
- 20706
- Area
- 631.29
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Guadiana
- Shares border with
- Borba
- Official website
- www.cm-elvas.pt
- Image
- Sé de Elvas - capela-mor.jpg
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- Commons category
- Elvas
- topic's main category
- Category:Elvas
- postal code
- 7350
- native label
- Elvas
- P8168
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- P11012
- Rhymbomicrus stephani
- contact page URL
- cm-elvas.pt/contactos
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +351-268-639-740
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On the map
6 mapped locations