Battle of Crete

Battle of Crete - 1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete. This event is the 824^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 991^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Crete” in English Wikipedia has 88.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 200 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.68 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Battle of Crete” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Crete”, its content was written by 572 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2271 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Crete is on the 991^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 824^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2132 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9938 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1466 in June 2004
• Global: #2973 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18200 in May 2021
• Global: #13221 in May 2011

There are 40 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	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		98.31
2	English (en) Battle of Crete		88.9099
3	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		86.2541
4	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Crete		85.4762
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		74.1938
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		71.5915
7	Finnish (fi) Kreetan taistelu		69.8644
8	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		68.1041
9	Hebrew (he) הקרב על כרתים		63.9312
10	Romanian (ro) Bătălia din Creta		60.8332

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battle of Crete" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		4 257 138
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		1 723 156
3	Russian (ru) Критская операция		530 236
4	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		425 207
5	Japanese (ja) クレタ島の戦い		330 950
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		315 257
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		306 193
8	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		280 093
9	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		255 987
10	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		178 745

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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 "Battle of Crete" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		27 512
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		7 796
3	Russian (ru) Критская операция		2 271
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		1 434
5	Dutch (nl) Landing op Kreta		1 400
6	Romanian (ro) Bătălia din Creta		1 285
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		1 213
8	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		1 090
9	Japanese (ja) クレタ島の戦い		998
10	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		956

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		572
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		332
3	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		160
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		106
5	Russian (ru) Критская операция		103
6	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		86
7	Dutch (nl) Landing op Kreta		86
8	Hebrew (he) הקרב על כרתים		79
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		70
10	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		60

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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 "Battle of Crete" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		5
2	Arabic (ar) معركة كريت		1
3	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Creta		1
4	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		1
5	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		1
6	Russian (ru) Критская операция		1
7	Slovak (sk) Invázia na Krétu		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Krit əməliyyatı		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Битка за Крит		0
10	Czech (cs) Invaze na Krétu		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 "Battle of Crete" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		2 132
2	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		879
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		713
4	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Меркурій»		678
5	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Creta		449
6	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		447
7	Persian (fa) نبرد کرت		337
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Crete		316
9	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		314
10	Korean (ko) 크레타 전투		307

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة كريت
az	Azerbaijani Krit əməliyyatı
bg	Bulgarian Битка за Крит
ca	Catalan Batalla de Creta
cs	Czech Invaze na Krétu
da	Danish Slaget om Kreta
de	German Unternehmen Merkur
el	Greek Μάχη της Κρήτης
en	English Battle of Crete
eo	Esperanto Batalo de Kreto
es	Spanish Batalla de Creta
fa	Persian نبرد کرت
fi	Finnish Kreetan taistelu
fr	French Bataille de Crète
he	Hebrew הקרב על כרתים
hu	Hungarian Krétai csata
hy	Armenian Կրետեի ռազմագործողություն
id	Indonesian Pertempuran Kreta
it	Italian Battaglia di Creta
ja	Japanese クレタ島の戦い
ka	Georgian კრეტის ბრძოლა
ko	Korean 크레타 전투
ms	Malay Pertempuran Kriti
nl	Dutch Landing op Kreta
no	Norwegian Slaget om Kreta
pl	Polish Bitwa o Kretę
pt	Portuguese Batalha de Creta
ro	Romanian Bătălia din Creta
ru	Russian Критская операция
sh	Serbo-Croatian Bitka za Krit
simple	Simple English Battle of Crete
sk	Slovak Invázia na Krétu
sr	Serbian Битка за Крит
sv	Swedish Slaget om Kreta
ta	Tamil கிரீட் சண்டை
th	Thai ยุทธการเกาะครีต
tr	Turkish Girit Muharebesi
uk	Ukrainian Операція «Меркурій»
vi	Vietnamese Trận Crete
zh	Chinese 克里特島戰役

Best Rank

English: #18200 05.2021

Global: #13221 05.2011

Best Rank

English: #1466 06.2004

Global: #2973 10.2014

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