Battle of Thermopylae

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Battle of Thermopylae - battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece. This event is the 69^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 72^nd most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "Battle of Thermopylae" in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 271 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3746^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1601^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 72^nd most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2975^th most popular in all topics.

The 2446^th most popular in AI.

The 69^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9000^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5453^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8102^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Battle of Thermopylae" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (8102^nd place).

Since the creation of article "Battle of Thermopylae", its content was written by 1633 registered users of English Wikipedia (1601^st place) and edited by 4627 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2446^th place).

Battle of Thermopylae is on the 72^nd place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 69^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 435 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3048 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #71 in March 2007
• Global: #34 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #444 in March 2014
• Global: #401 in March 2014

There are 51 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 August 1, 2024 (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 Thermopylae		100
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		100
3	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		100
4	Turkish (tr) Thermopylae Muharebesi		100
5	Croatian (hr) Bitka kod Termopila		100
6	Catalan (ca) Batalla de les Termòpiles (480 aC)		100
7	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		97.1482
8	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Termopylách		95
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Termopilska bitka		94.6243
10	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		91.7986

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Thermopylae		22 482 943
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		5 376 478
3	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		3 205 691
4	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		2 764 350
5	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		2 555 787
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		2 496 725
7	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		2 014 232
8	Japanese (ja) テルモピュライの戦い		1 773 697
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha das Termópilas		1 308 981
10	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		1 137 075

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 Thermopylae		78 936
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		14 895
3	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		14 651
4	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		14 028
5	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		9 528
6	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		8 456
7	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		6 115
8	Japanese (ja) テルモピュライの戦い		5 986
9	Persian (fa) نبرد ترموپیل		5 918
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		4 706

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 Thermopylae		1 633
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		264
3	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		256
4	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		255
5	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		247
6	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		164
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		151
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Thermopylae (480 v.Chr.)		125
9	Hebrew (he) קרב תרמופילאי		92
10	Hungarian (hu) Thermopülai csata (i. e. 480)		88

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	English (en) Battle of Thermopylae		7
2	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		4
3	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		3
4	Persian (fa) نبرد ترموپیل		2
5	Catalan (ca) Batalla de les Termòpiles (480 aC)		1
6	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		1
7	Finnish (fi) Thermopylain taistelu		1
8	Hindi (hi) थर्मापायली का युद्ध		1
9	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Termopilų mūšis		1

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

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