Alexis Sorbas

Zorba the Greek - novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. This book is the 1157^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 885^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Alexis Sorbas” in German Wikipedia has 16.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Romanian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Alexis Sorbas”, its content was written by 77 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 528 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Zorba the Greek is on the 885^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 1157^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in German Wikipedia and cited 492 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #13828 in April 2005
• Global: #9429 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #14137 in September 2018
• Global: #36338 in July 2016

There are 25 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	Romanian (ro) Zorba Grecul (roman)		94.6667
2	Hungarian (hu) Zorbász, a görög (regény)		79.091
3	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		67.3896
4	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		28.6546
5	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		28.6146
6	Basque (eu) Alexis Zorbaren hitzak eta egintzak		24.8686
7	Ukrainian (uk) Грек Зорба		21.8547
8	Portuguese (pt) Zorba, o Grego (livro)		21.216
9	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		21.1915
10	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		16.7534

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Alexis Sorbas" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zorba the Greek		2 245 705
2	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		396 503
3	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		303 740
4	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		290 197
5	Polish (pl) Grek Zorba		244 869
6	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		197 197
7	Korean (ko) 그리스인 조르바		134 186
8	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		131 518
9	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		130 282
10	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		106 386

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Alexis Sorbas" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zorba the Greek		8 268
2	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		1 744
3	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		1 459
4	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		1 063
5	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		931
6	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		872
7	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		794
8	Italian (it) Zorba il greco (libro)		793
9	Korean (ko) 그리스인 조르바		639
10	Russian (ru) Грек Зорба (роман)		547

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

Language versions of the article "Alexis Sorbas" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zorba the Greek		125
2	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		77
3	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		45
4	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		40
5	Polish (pl) Grek Zorba		30
6	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		29
7	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		26
8	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		19
9	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		18
10	Ukrainian (uk) Грек Зорба		15

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

Language versions of the article "Alexis Sorbas" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		1
2	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Алексис Зорбас		0
4	Czech (cs) Řek Zorba		0
5	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		0
6	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		0
7	English (en) Zorba the Greek		0
8	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		0
9	Basque (eu) Alexis Zorbaren hitzak eta egintzak		0
10	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		0

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

Language versions of the article "Alexis Sorbas" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Zorba the Greek		121
2	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		46
3	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		42
4	Romanian (ro) Zorba Grecul (roman)		35
5	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		28
6	Russian (ru) Грек Зорба (роман)		23
7	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		22
8	Czech (cs) Řek Zorba		18
9	Ukrainian (uk) Грек Зорба		18
10	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زوربا اليوناني
bg	Bulgarian Алексис Зорбас
cs	Czech Řek Zorba
de	German Alexis Sorbas
el	Greek Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά
en	English Zorba the Greek
es	Spanish Zorba, el griego
eu	Basque Alexis Zorbaren hitzak eta egintzak
fa	Persian زوربای یونانی
fi	Finnish Kerro minulle, Zorbas
fr	French Alexis Zorba
he	Hebrew זורבה היווני (ספר)
hu	Hungarian Zorbász, a görög (regény)
hy	Armenian Հույն Զոռբան (վեպ)
it	Italian Zorba il greco (libro)
ka	Georgian ალექსი ზორბასის ცხოვრება
ko	Korean 그리스인 조르바
pl	Polish Grek Zorba
pt	Portuguese Zorba, o Grego (livro)
ro	Romanian Zorba Grecul (roman)
ru	Russian Грек Зорба (роман)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Grk Zorba (roman)
tr	Turkish Zorba (roman)
uk	Ukrainian Грек Зорба
zh	Chinese 希臘左巴

Best Rank

German: #14137 09.2018

Global: #36338 07.2016

Best Rank

German: #13828 04.2005

Global: #9429 05.2002

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