Knossos

Quality:

Knossos - ancient Minoan through Roman administrative center and city. This city is the 436^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 551^st most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Knossos” in German Wikipedia has 64.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.38 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 551^st most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 436^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

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The 8087^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Knossos”, its content was written by 176 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1988 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Knossos is on the 551^st place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 436^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 286 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4698 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2245 in December 2003
• Global: #3782 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #4262 in October 2024
• Global: #13102 in August 2022

There are 52 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) Knossos		78.6421
2	Catalan (ca) Cnossos		64.7491
3	German (de) Knossos		64.1406
4	Spanish (es) Cnosos		59.2421
5	Finnish (fi) Knossos		59.0103
6	Chinese (zh) 克诺索斯		56.4206
7	Slovenian (sl) Knosos		54.2544
8	Croatian (hr) Knos		52.2659
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кносс		44.1161
10	Hungarian (hu) Knósszosz		42.1817

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knossos		5 239 508
2	German (de) Knossos		1 476 805
3	Italian (it) Cnosso		1 327 585
4	French (fr) Cnossos		847 077
5	Russian (ru) Кносс		824 445
6	Spanish (es) Cnosos		717 139
7	Polish (pl) Knossos		660 572
8	Greek (el) Κνωσός		571 849
9	Dutch (nl) Knossos		427 307
10	Japanese (ja) クノッソス		397 424

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) Knossos		30 201
2	German (de) Knossos		9 257
3	Italian (it) Cnosso		6 841
4	French (fr) Cnossos		4 200
5	Russian (ru) Кносс		3 182
6	Polish (pl) Knossos		3 079
7	Greek (el) Κνωσός		2 294
8	Dutch (nl) Knossos		2 141
9	Japanese (ja) クノッソス		1 850
10	Czech (cs) Knóssos		1 741

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Knossos		438
2	Italian (it) Cnosso		181
3	German (de) Knossos		176
4	French (fr) Cnossos		147
5	Dutch (nl) Knossos		98
6	Russian (ru) Кносс		80
7	Hungarian (hu) Knósszosz		55
8	Polish (pl) Knossos		55
9	Greek (el) Κνωσός		47
10	Spanish (es) Cnosos		47

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) Knossos		3
2	Serbian (sr) Кносос		2
3	Croatian (hr) Knos		1
4	Japanese (ja) クノッソス		1
5	Georgian (ka) კნოსოსი		1
6	Korean (ko) 크노소스		1
7	Latin (la) Cnossus		1
8	Romanian (ro) Cnossos		1
9	Russian (ru) Кносс		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кносс		1

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

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