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Official name | Portorož |
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Other name | Portorose |
Settlement type | |
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Pushpin map | Slovenia |
Pushpin label position | bottom |
Pushpin map caption | Location in Slovenia |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Coordinates region | SI |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | Slovenia |
Subdivision type1 | Region |
Subdivision name1 | Slovenian Littoral |
Subdivision type2 | Municipality |
Subdivision name2 | Piran |
Area total km2 | 2.97 |
Population as of | 2002 |
Population total | 2849 |
Population blank1 title | Ethnicities |
Population blank2 title | Religions |
Elevation m | 31.2 |
Footnotes |
Portorož was host to the International Physics Olympiad in 1985 and to the European Universities Debating Championships in 2001.
It is the host of the new Euro-Mediterranean University, that was inaugurated on Monday 9 June 2008, in collaboration with universities of the EU, the Middle-East and North Africa (the EU States and the Euro-Mediterranean Basin, from to Turkey to Morocco and including Israel), by Janez Janša, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, and Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament. This university will be fully operational for its first academic year in 2009.
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