Battle of Adwa

Battle of Adwa - battle between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty. This event is the 1548^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Battle of Adwa” in English Wikipedia has 93.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 115 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Battle of Adwa” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (7616^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Adwa”, its content was written by 431 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1314 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Adwa is on the 1548^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 263 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1720 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #790 in January 2002
• Global: #933 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16983 in March 2021
• Global: #22397 in March 2021

There are 33 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	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		100
2	English (en) Battle of Adwa		93.4889
3	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Adwa		76.8795
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		52.8711
5	Turkish (tr) Adowa Muharebesi		38.2957
6	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		34.1239
7	Malay (ms) Pertempuran Adwa		33.4629
8	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		32.9816
9	Armenian (hy) Ադուայի ճակատամարտ		31.0462
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		30.3715

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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 Adwa" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		2 617 998
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		1 036 860
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		371 337
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		282 193
5	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		199 449
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		148 527
7	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		136 075
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Aduą		123 096
9	Chinese (zh) 阿杜瓦战役		67 982
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		52 881

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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 Adwa" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		11 050
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		7 057
3	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		1 139
4	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		1 132
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		716
6	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		658
7	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		648
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Aduą		388
9	Chinese (zh) 阿杜瓦战役		314
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		276

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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 Adwa" 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 Adwa		431
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		162
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		135
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		100
5	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		56
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		41
7	Hebrew (he) קרב עדווה		41
8	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		35
9	Galician (gl) Batalla de Adua		29
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Aduą		29

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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 Adwa" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		9
2	Catalan (ca) Batalla d'Adwa		1
3	Basque (eu) Adwako gudua		1
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		1
5	Korean (ko) 아두와 전투		1
6	Chinese (zh) 阿杜瓦战役		1
7	Arabic (ar) معركة عدوة		0
8	Czech (cs) Bitva u Adwy		0
9	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		0
10	Greek (el) Μάχη της Άντουα		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 Adwa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		537
2	English (en) Battle of Adwa		263
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		230
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		88
5	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		71
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		64
7	Hebrew (he) קרב עדווה		39
8	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		38
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		35
10	Arabic (ar) معركة عدوة		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة عدوة
ca	Catalan Batalla d'Adwa
cs	Czech Bitva u Adwy
de	German Schlacht von Adua
el	Greek Μάχη της Άντουα
en	English Battle of Adwa
eo	Esperanto Batalo de Adva
es	Spanish Batalla de Adua
et	Estonian Adua lahing
eu	Basque Adwako gudua
fa	Persian جنگ آدوا
fi	Finnish Adowan taistelu
fr	French Bataille d'Adoua
gl	Galician Batalla de Adua
he	Hebrew קרב עדווה
hr	Croatian Bitka kod Adve
hy	Armenian Ադուայի ճակատամարտ
id	Indonesian Pertempuran Adwa
it	Italian Battaglia di Adua
ja	Japanese アドワの戦い
ko	Korean 아두와 전투
ms	Malay Pertempuran Adwa
nl	Dutch Slag bij Adwa
no	Norwegian Slaget ved Adwa
pl	Polish Bitwa pod Aduą
pt	Portuguese Batalha de Aduá
ru	Russian Сражение при Адуа
sr	Serbian Битка код Адве
sv	Swedish Slaget vid Adua
th	Thai ยุทธการอัดวา
tr	Turkish Adowa Muharebesi
uk	Ukrainian Битва при Адуа
zh	Chinese 阿杜瓦战役

Best Rank

English: #16983 03.2021

Global: #22397 03.2021

Best Rank

English: #790 01.2002

Global: #933 01.2002

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