Tunes is a Portuguese Parish in the Municipality

Municipalities of Portugal

In Portugal, municipality or concelho is the most stable subdivision of Portugal since the foundation of the country.Portugal has an entirely separate system of cities and towns. Cities and towns are located in municipalities, but often do not have the same boundaries, even if built-up is continuous...

 (concelho

Concelho

Concelho , in the Portuguese language, is the word municipality, when referring to the territory. The word município is used when municipality means the organ of State...

) of Silves. The village is 29.7 kilometres (18.5 mi) east of Silves and is 245 kilometres (152.2 mi) south south east of Lisbon

Lisbon

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. It has an area of 12.13 km², has a population of ca. 2,002 (2001), and a population density of 166.7 hab/km².

Some historians think that the local area was originally inhabited by people from Tunis

Tunis

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 in Tunisia

Tunisia

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, hence the name "Tunes".

The town is most noted for a train station.