Devshirme

Devşirme - Ottoman Empire recruitment practice. Article “Devshirme” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 163 references and 15 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.

In June 2025 the article “Devshirme” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Devshirme”, its content was written by 312 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 989 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 939 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2712 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9181 in February 2014
• Global: #8629 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #77389 in February 2015
• Global: #35172 in April 2016

There are 35 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) Devshirme		85.7143
2	Korean (ko) 데브쉬르메		58.5892
3	German (de) Knabenlese		53.385
4	Malay (ms) Devşirme		46.8251
5	Spanish (es) Devşirme		45.3228
6	Azerbaijani (az) Devşirmə		44.9415
7	Chinese (zh) 德夫希尔梅		37.0998
8	Turkish (tr) Devşirme		34.802
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Danak u krvi		33.5539
10	Greek (el) Παιδομάζωμα		31.2117

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Devshirme		1 738 772
2	Turkish (tr) Devşirme		983 060
3	German (de) Knabenlese		291 638
4	Russian (ru) Девширме		253 977
5	French (fr) Devchirmé		184 878
6	Greek (el) Παιδομάζωμα		183 194
7	Serbian (sr) Данак у крви		152 781
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кръвен данък		102 935
9	Japanese (ja) デヴシルメ		91 287
10	Spanish (es) Devşirme		81 774

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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 "Devshirme" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Devshirme		13 587
2	Turkish (tr) Devşirme		2 505
3	Russian (ru) Девширме		1 303
4	German (de) Knabenlese		1 175
5	Arabic (ar) دوشيرمة		1 120
6	French (fr) Devchirmé		964
7	Spanish (es) Devşirme		680
8	Serbian (sr) Данак у крви		659
9	Greek (el) Παιδομάζωμα		560
10	Italian (it) Devscirme		459

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Devshirme		312
2	German (de) Knabenlese		115
3	French (fr) Devchirmé		80
4	Turkish (tr) Devşirme		57
5	Italian (it) Devscirme		45
6	Dutch (nl) Devşirme		37
7	Serbian (sr) Данак у крви		31
8	Greek (el) Παιδομάζωμα		29
9	Spanish (es) Devşirme		29
10	Hebrew (he) דוושירמה		28

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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 "Devshirme" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Knabenlese		2
2	Dutch (nl) Devşirme		2
3	English (en) Devshirme		1
4	Italian (it) Devscirme		1
5	Japanese (ja) デヴシルメ		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Krvni davek		1
7	Arabic (ar) دوشيرمة		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Devşirmə		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Кръвен данък		0
10	Catalan (ca) Devşirme		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 "Devshirme" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Devshirme		939
2	Arabic (ar) دوشيرمة		237
3	French (fr) Devchirmé		208
4	Turkish (tr) Devşirme		196
5	Dutch (nl) Devşirme		109
6	Greek (el) Παιδομάζωμα		94
7	Serbian (sr) Данак у крви		81
8	German (de) Knabenlese		78
9	Russian (ru) Девширме		78
10	Persian (fa) دوشیرمه		77

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دوشيرمة
az	Azerbaijani Devşirmə
bg	Bulgarian Кръвен данък
ca	Catalan Devşirme
cs	Czech Devširme
de	German Knabenlese
el	Greek Παιδομάζωμα
en	English Devshirme
es	Spanish Devşirme
fa	Persian دوشیرمه
fi	Finnish Devşirme
fr	French Devchirmé
he	Hebrew דוושירמה
hr	Croatian Danak u krvi
hy	Armenian Դևշիրմե
id	Indonesian Devşirme
it	Italian Devscirme
ja	Japanese デヴシルメ
ko	Korean 데브쉬르메
la	Latin Collectio puerorum (Devsirme)
ms	Malay Devşirme
nl	Dutch Devşirme
pl	Polish Dewszirme
pt	Portuguese Devshirme
ro	Romanian Tributul de sânge
ru	Russian Девширме
sh	Serbo-Croatian Danak u krvi
sl	Slovenian Krvni davek
sr	Serbian Данак у крви
sv	Swedish Devschirme
tr	Turkish Devşirme
uk	Ukrainian Девширме
ur	Urdu دیوشیرمہ
uz	Uzbek Devshirme
zh	Chinese 德夫希尔梅

Best Rank

English: #77389 02.2015

Global: #35172 04.2016

Best Rank

English: #9181 02.2014

Global: #8629 12.2010

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