Battle of Marathon

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Battle of Marathon - 490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars. This event is the 313^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 500^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Marathon” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 211 references and 27 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 500^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6533^rd most popular in AI.

The 313^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Battle of Marathon” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Marathon”, its content was written by 743 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6533^rd place).

Battle of Marathon is on the 500^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 313^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 345 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3333 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #155 in December 2001
• Global: #170 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3698 in March 2014
• Global: #3135 in March 2014

There are 52 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) Battle of Marathon		100
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		100
3	Turkish (tr) Maraton Muharebesi		100
4	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Marathon		100
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		98.093
6	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		91.0768
7	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		76.6689
8	Azerbaijani (az) Marafon döyüşü		72.1281
9	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		69.7988
10	Armenian (hy) Մարաթոնի ճակատամարտ		62.4849

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Marathon		7 131 351
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		1 799 355
3	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		1 330 085
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		1 295 392
5	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		1 251 877
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		1 193 416
7	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		1 033 377
8	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		1 005 033
9	Japanese (ja) マラトンの戦い		542 064
10	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		340 576

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 Marathon		24 640
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		4 099
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		3 476
4	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		3 199
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		3 026
6	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		3 025
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		2 755
8	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		1 717
9	Japanese (ja) マラトンの戦い		1 658
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		1 249

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 Marathon		743
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		239
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		197
4	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		182
5	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Marathon		133
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		123
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		112
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		98
9	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		81
10	Hungarian (hu) Marathóni csata		72

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	Czech (cs) Bitva u Marathónu		2
2	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Маратон		1
3	English (en) Battle of Marathon		1
4	Basque (eu) Maratongo Gudua		1
5	Galician (gl) Batalla de Maratón		1
6	Japanese (ja) マラトンの戦い		1
7	Norwegian (no) Slaget ved Marathon		1
8	Serbian (sr) Маратонска битка		1
9	Arabic (ar) معركة ماراثون		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Marafon döyüşü		0

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

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