Ekbatan

Quality:

Ecbatana - ancient city that was the capital of the Median empire. This city is the 2288^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 331^st most popular city in Azerbaijani Wikipedia. Article “Ekbatan” in Azerbaijani Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Azerbaijani) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Azerbaijani Wikipedia:

The 331^st most popular in cities in Azerbaijani Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2288^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Ekbatan”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Azerbaijani Wikipedia and edited by 976 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ecbatana is on the 331^st place in local ranking of cities in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and on the 2288^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and cited 3699 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #553 in February 2013
• Global: #4405 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #3493 in November 2016
• Global: #63865 in February 2024

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ecbatana		83.4947
2	Korean (ko) 엑바타나		76.6952
3	Hebrew (he) אחמתא		72.1734
4	Persian (fa) هگمتانه		48.6379
5	Croatian (hr) Ekbatana		48.0279
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ekbatana		45.131
7	Tamil (ta) எகபடனா		44.764
8	Slovenian (sl) Ekbatana		41.9411
9	German (de) Ekbatana		37.5314
10	Norwegian (no) Ekbatana		34.6746

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ecbatana		1 000 412
2	Persian (fa) هگمتانه		770 154
3	Russian (ru) Экбатана		188 567
4	German (de) Ekbatana		174 815
5	Spanish (es) Ecbatana		167 101
6	French (fr) Ecbatane		135 353
7	Italian (it) Ecbatana		120 912
8	Japanese (ja) エクバタナ		102 765
9	Polish (pl) Ekbatana		94 169
10	Portuguese (pt) Ecbátana		49 349

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ecbatana		11 121
2	Persian (fa) هگمتانه		3 494
3	Russian (ru) Экбатана		1 649
4	Spanish (es) Ecbatana		1 191
5	Italian (it) Ecbatana		1 076
6	French (fr) Ecbatane		996
7	German (de) Ekbatana		775
8	Japanese (ja) エクバタナ		705
9	Turkish (tr) Ekbatan		692
10	Polish (pl) Ekbatana		470

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ecbatana		185
2	Persian (fa) هگمتانه		120
3	German (de) Ekbatana		77
4	French (fr) Ecbatane		71
5	Italian (it) Ecbatana		65
6	Norwegian (no) Ekbatana		37
7	Spanish (es) Ecbatana		34
8	Russian (ru) Экбатана		32
9	Hebrew (he) אחמתא		29
10	Polish (pl) Ekbatana		26

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ecbatana		2
2	Korean (ko) 엑바타나		2
3	Czech (cs) Ekbatana		1
4	Greek (el) Εκβάτανα		1
5	Italian (it) Ecbatana		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Ecbátana		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Ekbatana		1
8	Swedish (sv) Ekbatana		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Екбатана		1
10	Chinese (zh) 埃克巴坦那		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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