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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Algarve
- Intermunic comm
- Algarve
- District
- Faro
- President
- Rosa Palma ( CDU )
- Total
- 680.06 km (262.57 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 34 m (112 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 54.592/km (141.39/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Website
- www .cm-silves .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Câmara Municipal de Silves
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município de Silves
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Algarve
- Contains
- Silves
- Population
- 37126
- Area
- 680.06
- Elevation
- 34
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Capital of
- Taifa of Silves
- Shares border with
- Albufeira
- Official website
- www.cm-silves.pt
- Image
- Cidade de Silves.jpg
- Dialing code
- 282
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- Commons category
- Silves
- topic's main category
- Category:Silves, Portugal
- category for people born here
- Q15044187
- postal code
- 8600
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Silves, Portugal
- Commons gallery
- Silves
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- P8168
- Eagleville
- twinned administrative body
- Sidi Bennour
- phone number
- +351-282-440-800
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 258684
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Encyclopedic overview
Silves ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsiɫ.vɨʃ] ), officially the City of Silves (Portuguese: Cidade de Silves), is a city and municipality in the Portuguese region of Algarve, in southern Portugal. The population of the entire municipality of Silves in 2011 was 37,126, in an area of 680.06 km. Silves is the former capital of the Kingdom of the Algarve (1249–1910), a nominal kingdom within the Kingdom of Portugal (1139–1910), and is of great historical importance.
Silves is a member of Cittaslow.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silves” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.