Krak des Chevaliers

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Krak des Chevaliers - Crusader castle near Homs, Syria. This building is the 420^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 369^th most popular building in German Wikipedia. Article “Krak des Chevaliers” in German Wikipedia has 48.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.57 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 369^th most popular in buildings in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 420^th most popular in buildings.

In June 2025 the article “Krak des Chevaliers” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Krak des Chevaliers”, its content was written by 146 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1724 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Krak des Chevaliers is on the 369^th place in local ranking of buildings in German Wikipedia and on the 420^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 80 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2164 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2927 in February 2015
• Global: #4832 in July 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2612 in April 2021
• Global: #18773 in April 2021

There are 48 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) Krak des Chevaliers		89.2256
2	Japanese (ja) クラック・デ・シュヴァリエ		79.0113
3	Spanish (es) Crac de los Caballeros		77.0945
4	Portuguese (pt) Fortaleza dos Cavaleiros		72.5492
5	Arabic (ar) قلعة الحصن (حمص)		56.2887
6	Simple English (simple) Krak de Chevaliers		50.6601
7	German (de) Krak des Chevaliers		48.8351
8	Slovak (sk) Krak des Chevaliers		48.7194
9	Catalan (ca) Krak dels Cavallers		47.8276
10	Hebrew (he) קראק דה שבלייה		47.0683

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Krak des Chevaliers		2 971 147
2	German (de) Krak des Chevaliers		860 848
3	French (fr) Krak des Chevaliers		667 305
4	Arabic (ar) قلعة الحصن (حمص)		496 417
5	Spanish (es) Crac de los Caballeros		415 957
6	Polish (pl) Krak des Chevaliers		268 156
7	Italian (it) Krak dei Cavalieri		263 170
8	Japanese (ja) クラック・デ・シュヴァリエ		223 408
9	Russian (ru) Крак-де-Шевалье		144 831
10	Dutch (nl) Krak des Chevaliers		143 493

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) Krak des Chevaliers		11 780
2	French (fr) Krak des Chevaliers		4 317
3	German (de) Krak des Chevaliers		2 209
4	Arabic (ar) قلعة الحصن (حمص)		1 512
5	Spanish (es) Crac de los Caballeros		1 207
6	Russian (ru) Крак-де-Шевалье		1 002
7	Polish (pl) Krak des Chevaliers		752
8	Italian (it) Krak dei Cavalieri		740
9	Dutch (nl) Krak des Chevaliers		527
10	Japanese (ja) クラック・デ・シュヴァリエ		441

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Krak des Chevaliers		299
2	French (fr) Krak des Chevaliers		190
3	German (de) Krak des Chevaliers		146
4	Italian (it) Krak dei Cavalieri		112
5	Dutch (nl) Krak des Chevaliers		74
6	Arabic (ar) قلعة الحصن (حمص)		60
7	Spanish (es) Crac de los Caballeros		55
8	Russian (ru) Крак-де-Шевалье		55
9	Hebrew (he) קראק דה שבלייה		54
10	Galician (gl) Krak des Chevaliers		50

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	German (de) Krak des Chevaliers		1
2	English (en) Krak des Chevaliers		1
3	Hebrew (he) קראק דה שבלייה		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Krak des Chevaliers		1
5	Arabic (ar) قلعة الحصن (حمص)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Krak de Şevalye		0
7	Belarusian (be) Крак дэ Шэвалье		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Крак де Шевалие		0
9	Catalan (ca) Krak dels Cavallers		0
10	Czech (cs) Krak des Chevaliers		0

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

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