Tortosa
Location
General information
Province	Tarragona
Comarca	Baix Ebre
Demonym	Tortosí, tortosina
Land Area	218. A comarca (meaning Shire or County, Spanish and Portuguese plural comarcas, Catalan plural Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 45 km²
Altitude	12 m AMSL
Population	34,832 (2007)
Density	159. Altitude is the Elevation of a point or object from a known level or datum (plural data The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different 45 hab. /km²
Mayor	Ferran Bel i Accensi

Tortosa (Latin: Dertusa or Dertosa, Arabic: طرطوشة Ṭurṭūšah) is the capital of the comarca of Baix Ebre, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain, located at 12 metres above the sea, by the Ebre river. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language This is a list of the comarques (singular "comarca") of Catalonia ( Spain) Baix Ebre is a comarca (county, on the coast in southern Catalonia, Spain. Tarragona (tərəˈɣonə in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. Catalonia (Cataluña Catalunya Aranese: Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in the northeast part of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Ebro ( Ebre) is Spain 's most voluminous river Its source is in Fontibre ( Cantabria) Population 34,832 (2007).

It was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1148. The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim people of Berber and Arab descent Ramon Berenguer IV Count of Barcelona also called Ramon the Holy (c

Ebre river in Tortosa

Demography

See also

• Bishop of Tortosa
• Disputation of Tortosa

External links

• Official website (Catalan)
• Information - Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan)
• Statistical information - Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (Catalan)
• Monasteries in Catalonia. Tortosa (Catalan)
• The Tortosa Forum