Battle of Cannae

Quality:

Battle of Cannae - major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE). This event is the 446^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 531^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Cannae” in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 164 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 531^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 446^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Battle of Cannae” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Cannae”, its content was written by 632 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2505 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Cannae is on the 531^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 446^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 381 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3790 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #408 in January 2007
• Global: #1293 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3334 in June 2016
• Global: #5895 in June 2016

There are 45 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	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		92.5412
2	English (en) Battle of Cannae		90
3	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Cannae		89.4799
4	Greek (el) Μάχη των Καννών		80.0091
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		65.8993
6	Basque (eu) Cannaeko gudua		65.8253
7	Hebrew (he) קרב קאנאי		60.1267
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		59.5343
9	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		54.6195
10	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Cannae		53.6025

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Cannae		7 399 783
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		1 249 130
3	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		1 166 899
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		1 145 796
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		1 062 832
6	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		964 564
7	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		687 343
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		633 194
9	Chinese (zh) 坎尼會戰		261 032
10	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Cannae		185 860

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) Battle of Cannae		39 229
2	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		4 850
3	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		4 473
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		4 091
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		3 903
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		3 900
7	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		2 976
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		1 605
9	Chinese (zh) 坎尼會戰		1 271
10	Swedish (sv) Slaget vid Cannae		875

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Cannae		632
2	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		216
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		190
4	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		162
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		123
6	Hebrew (he) קרב קאנאי		99
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		96
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Cannae		87
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		70
10	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		58

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	Arabic (ar) معركة كاناي		2
2	English (en) Battle of Cannae		2
3	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		2
4	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Cannes		1
5	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		1
6	Hebrew (he) קרב קאנאי		1
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Kanna döyüşü		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Кана		0
10	Czech (cs) Bitva u Kann		0

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

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