Alexis Sorbas

Zorba the Greek - novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. This book is the 1083^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 900^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Alexis Sorbas” in German Wikipedia has 16.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Zorba the Greek is on the 900^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 1083^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 45 times in German Wikipedia and cited 525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #13917 in April 2005
• Global: #9427 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #14126 in September 2018
• Global: #36020 in July 2016

There are 26 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, 2026 (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)		78.8563
3	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		67.2698
4	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		30.9821
5	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		28.6858
6	Basque (eu) Alexis Zorbaren hitzak eta egintzak		24.4744
7	Portuguese (pt) Zorba, o Grego (livro)		21.1179
8	Ukrainian (uk) Грек Зорба		20.717
9	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		20.0079
10	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		16.5337

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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		2 339 287
2	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		602 152
3	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		412 911
4	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		311 647
5	Polish (pl) Grek Zorba		250 932
6	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		206 882
7	Korean (ko) 그리스인 조르바		141 932
8	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		141 166
9	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		140 159
10	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		119 580

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zorba the Greek		7 770
2	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		1 342
3	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		1 004
4	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		979
5	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		958
6	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		932
7	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		884
8	Korean (ko) 그리스인 조르바		795
9	Italian (it) Zorba il greco (libro)		711
10	Russian (ru) Грек Зорба (роман)		616

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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		129
2	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		77
3	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		49
4	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		41
5	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		30
6	Polish (pl) Grek Zorba		30
7	Turkish (tr) Zorba (roman)		28
8	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		20
9	Persian (fa) زوربای یونانی		19
10	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		17

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		2
2	Basque (eu) Alexis Zorbaren hitzak eta egintzak		1
3	Romanian (ro) Zorba Grecul (roman)		1
4	Arabic (ar) زوربا اليوناني		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Алексис Зорбас		0
6	Czech (cs) Řek Zorba		0
7	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		0
8	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		0
9	English (en) Zorba the Greek		0
10	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		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		109
2	Greek (el) Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά		74
3	German (de) Alexis Sorbas		45
4	Spanish (es) Zorba, el griego		41
5	Romanian (ro) Zorba Grecul (roman)		32
6	French (fr) Alexis Zorba		29
7	Hebrew (he) זורבה היווני (ספר)		23
8	Russian (ru) Грек Зорба (роман)		22
9	Czech (cs) Řek Zorba		18
10	Ukrainian (uk) Грек Зорба		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
ur	Urdu زوربا دی گریک
zh	Chinese 希臘左巴

Best Rank

German: #14126 09.2018

Global: #36020 07.2016

Best Rank

German: #13917 04.2005

Global: #9427 05.2002

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