159 BC

159 BC - year. Article “159 BC” in English Wikipedia has 15.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.84 points.

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

Since the creation of article “159 BC”, its content was written by 32 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 577 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1894 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5493 in August 2002
• Global: #2488 in August 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #740488 in January 2008
• Global: #358133 in May 2008

There are 46 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	Catalan (ca) 159 aC		33.1582
2	Bulgarian (bg) 159 г. пр.н.е.		28.3641
3	French (fr) 159 av. J.-C.		25.5432
4	Arabic (ar) 159 ق م		24.2316
5	Lithuanian (lt) 159 m. pr. m. e.		22.7059
6	Russian (ru) 159 год до н. э.		21.9526
7	English (en) 159 BC		15.9029
8	Japanese (ja) 紀元前159年		11.4872
9	Swedish (sv) 159 f.Kr.		7.4855
10	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 159		7.1371

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

The most popular language versions of the article "159 BC" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Polish (pl) 159 p.n.e.		40 826
2	English (en) 159 BC		40 164
3	Russian (ru) 159 год до н. э.		14 186
4	Spanish (es) 159 a. C.		13 717
5	French (fr) 159 av. J.-C.		12 431
6	German (de) 159 v. Chr.		9 550
7	Italian (it) 159 a.C.		8 781
8	Chinese (zh) 前159年		5 970
9	Japanese (ja) 紀元前159年		5 336
10	Portuguese (pt) 159 a.C.		5 157

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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 "159 BC" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 159 BC		110
2	Russian (ru) 159 год до н. э.		31
3	Chinese (zh) 前159年		30
4	Japanese (ja) 紀元前159年		27
5	French (fr) 159 av. J.-C.		26
6	Spanish (es) 159 a. C.		21
7	Portuguese (pt) 159 a.C.		21
8	Italian (it) 159 a.C.		18
9	German (de) 159 v. Chr.		17
10	Swedish (sv) 159 f.Kr.		17

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

Language versions of the article "159 BC" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) 159 av. J.-C.		56
2	German (de) 159 v. Chr.		47
3	Dutch (nl) 159 v.Chr.		44
4	Norwegian (no) 159 f.Kr.		37
5	Russian (ru) 159 год до н. э.		36
6	Italian (it) 159 a.C.		35
7	English (en) 159 BC		32
8	Danish (da) 159 f.Kr.		30
9	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 159		27
10	Latin (la) 159 a.C.n.		25

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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 "159 BC" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) 159 ق م		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) E.ə. 159		0
3	Belarusian (be) 159 да н.э.		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) 159 г. пр.н.е.		0
5	Catalan (ca) 159 aC		0
6	Czech (cs) 159 př. n. l.		0
7	Danish (da) 159 f.Kr.		0
8	German (de) 159 v. Chr.		0
9	Greek (el) 159 π.Χ.		0
10	English (en) 159 BC		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 "159 BC" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) 159 год до н. э.		395
2	Ukrainian (uk) 159 до н. е.		190
3	Japanese (ja) 紀元前159年		137
4	Finnish (fi) 159 eaa.		121
5	Bulgarian (bg) 159 г. пр.н.е.		117
6	Persian (fa) ۱۵۹ (پیش از میلاد)		116
7	Polish (pl) 159 p.n.e.		70
8	French (fr) 159 av. J.-C.		60
9	Czech (cs) 159 př. n. l.		54
10	Italian (it) 159 a.C.		43

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic 159 ق م
az	Azerbaijani E.ə. 159
be	Belarusian 159 да н.э.
bg	Bulgarian 159 г. пр.н.е.
ca	Catalan 159 aC
cs	Czech 159 př. n. l.
da	Danish 159 f.Kr.
de	German 159 v. Chr.
el	Greek 159 π.Χ.
en	English 159 BC
eo	Esperanto -159
es	Spanish 159 a. C.
et	Estonian 159 eKr
eu	Basque K.a. 159
fa	Persian ۱۵۹ (پیش از میلاد)
fi	Finnish 159 eaa.
fr	French 159 av. J.-C.
gl	Galician -159
hr	Croatian 159. pr. Kr.
hu	Hungarian I. e. 159
hy	Armenian Մ.թ.ա. 159
id	Indonesian 159 SM
it	Italian 159 a.C.
ja	Japanese 紀元前159年
ka	Georgian ძვ. წ. 159
kk	Kazakh Б. з. д. 159 жыл
la	Latin 159 a.C.n.
lt	Lithuanian 159 m. pr. m. e.
ms	Malay 159 SM
nl	Dutch 159 v.Chr.
no	Norwegian 159 f.Kr.
pl	Polish 159 p.n.e.
pt	Portuguese 159 a.C.
ro	Romanian 159 î.Hr.
ru	Russian 159 год до н. э.
sh	Serbo-Croatian 159. pr. n. e.
sk	Slovak 159 pred Kr.
sl	Slovenian 159 pr. n. št.
sr	Serbian 159. п. н. е.
sv	Swedish 159 f.Kr.
th	Thai พ.ศ. 385
tr	Turkish MÖ 159
uk	Ukrainian 159 до н. е.
uz	Uzbek Mil. av. 159
vi	Vietnamese 159 TCN
zh	Chinese 前159年

Best Rank

English: #740488 01.2008

Global: #358133 05.2008

Best Rank

English: #5493 08.2002

Global: #2488 08.2010

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