279 BC

279 BC - year. Article “279 BC” in English Wikipedia has 15.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “279 BC”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 616 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1804 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14413 in December 2002
• Global: #4119 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #632785 in January 2008
• Global: #317673 in December 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	Bulgarian (bg) 279 г. пр.н.е.		32.6922
2	Catalan (ca) 279 aC		30.7882
3	French (fr) 279 av. J.-C.		25.1311
4	Finnish (fi) 279 eaa.		24.3983
5	Arabic (ar) 279 ق م		24.2386
6	Lithuanian (lt) 279 m. pr. m. e.		22.7071
7	Spanish (es) 279 a. C.		15.9971
8	English (en) 279 BC		15.7591
9	Swedish (sv) 279 f.Kr.		11.1832
10	German (de) 279 v. Chr.		10.2543

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

The most popular language versions of the article "279 BC" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 279 BC		51 911
2	Polish (pl) 279 p.n.e.		46 534
3	Russian (ru) 279 год до н. э.		25 669
4	French (fr) 279 av. J.-C.		22 714
5	German (de) 279 v. Chr.		20 668
6	Italian (it) 279 a.C.		17 667
7	Spanish (es) 279 a. C.		14 755
8	Japanese (ja) 紀元前279年		11 650
9	Chinese (zh) 前279年		11 387
10	Dutch (nl) 279 v.Chr.		7 108

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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 "279 BC" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 279 BC		168
2	Russian (ru) 279 год до н. э.		57
3	Chinese (zh) 前279年		54
4	Malay (ms) 279 SM		53
5	German (de) 279 v. Chr.		36
6	French (fr) 279 av. J.-C.		35
7	Dutch (nl) 279 v.Chr.		33
8	Italian (it) 279 a.C.		32
9	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 279		29
10	Japanese (ja) 紀元前279年		26

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

Language versions of the article "279 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) 279 av. J.-C.		66
2	German (de) 279 v. Chr.		57
3	Italian (it) 279 a.C.		52
4	Dutch (nl) 279 v.Chr.		43
5	English (en) 279 BC		42
6	Norwegian (no) 279 f.Kr.		37
7	Russian (ru) 279 год до н. э.		35
8	Danish (da) 279 f.Kr.		33
9	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 279		29
10	Latin (la) 279 a.C.n.		23

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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 "279 BC" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) 279 v. Chr.		1
2	Arabic (ar) 279 ق م		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) E.ə. 279		0
4	Belarusian (be) 279 да н.э.		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) 279 г. пр.н.е.		0
6	Catalan (ca) 279 aC		0
7	Czech (cs) 279 př. n. l.		0
8	Danish (da) 279 f.Kr.		0
9	Greek (el) 279 π.Χ.		0
10	English (en) 279 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 "279 BC" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 紀元前279年		163
2	Russian (ru) 279 год до н. э.		161
3	Bulgarian (bg) 279 г. пр.н.е.		127
4	Finnish (fi) 279 eaa.		125
5	Persian (fa) ۲۷۹ (پیش از میلاد)		114
6	Italian (it) 279 a.C.		96
7	French (fr) 279 av. J.-C.		94
8	Catalan (ca) 279 aC		70
9	Polish (pl) 279 p.n.e.		64
10	Greek (el) 279 π.Χ.		43

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic 279 ق م
az	Azerbaijani E.ə. 279
be	Belarusian 279 да н.э.
bg	Bulgarian 279 г. пр.н.е.
ca	Catalan 279 aC
cs	Czech 279 př. n. l.
da	Danish 279 f.Kr.
de	German 279 v. Chr.
el	Greek 279 π.Χ.
en	English 279 BC
eo	Esperanto -279
es	Spanish 279 a. C.
et	Estonian 279 eKr
eu	Basque K.a. 279
fa	Persian ۲۷۹ (پیش از میلاد)
fi	Finnish 279 eaa.
fr	French 279 av. J.-C.
gl	Galician -279
hr	Croatian 279. pr. Kr.
hu	Hungarian I. e. 279
hy	Armenian Մ.թ.ա. 279
id	Indonesian 279 SM
it	Italian 279 a.C.
ja	Japanese 紀元前279年
ka	Georgian ძვ. წ. 279
kk	Kazakh Б. з. д. 279 жыл
la	Latin 279 a.C.n.
lt	Lithuanian 279 m. pr. m. e.
ms	Malay 279 SM
nl	Dutch 279 v.Chr.
no	Norwegian 279 f.Kr.
pl	Polish 279 p.n.e.
pt	Portuguese 279 a.C.
ro	Romanian 279 î.Hr.
ru	Russian 279 год до н. э.
sh	Serbo-Croatian 279. pr. n. e.
sk	Slovak 279 pred Kr.
sl	Slovenian 279 pr. n. št.
sr	Serbian 279. п. н. е.
sv	Swedish 279 f.Kr.
th	Thai พ.ศ. 265
tr	Turkish MÖ 279
uk	Ukrainian 279 до н. е.
uz	Uzbek Mil. av. 279
vi	Vietnamese 279 TCN
zh	Chinese 前279年

Best Rank

English: #632785 01.2008

Global: #317673 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #14413 12.2002

Global: #4119 05.2008

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