Gyges

Gyges of Lydia - king of Lydia, 7th century BC; subject of story by Herodotus leading to him marrying Candaules' wife Nyssia. Article “Gyges” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 28.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Gyges”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 719 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 55 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 852 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2543 in February 2022
• Global: #6216 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #41586 in January 2026
• Global: #119840 in January 2018

There are 34 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	English (en) Gyges of Lydia		68.387
2	Slovenian (sl) Gig		52.5043
3	German (de) Gyges		48.9115
4	Persian (fa) ژیگس		37.8763
5	Japanese (ja) ギュゲス (リュディア)		37.6512
6	Latin (la) Gyges		31.3161
7	Portuguese (pt) Giges da Lídia		30.0009
8	Norwegian (no) Gyges		28.8711
9	Turkish (tr) Gigis		26.9175
10	Catalan (ca) Giges		23.1919

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gyges of Lydia		647 055
2	Russian (ru) Гиг		159 897
3	French (fr) Gygès		138 502
4	German (de) Gyges		137 604
5	Spanish (es) Giges de Lidia		89 729
6	Polish (pl) Gyges		79 116
7	Italian (it) Gige (Lidia)		65 967
8	Turkish (tr) Gigis		48 169
9	Portuguese (pt) Giges da Lídia		28 446
10	Persian (fa) ژیگس		27 494

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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 "Gyges" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gyges of Lydia		2 731
2	French (fr) Gygès		461
3	German (de) Gyges		359
4	Russian (ru) Гиг		350
5	Persian (fa) ژیگس		335
6	Spanish (es) Giges de Lidia		246
7	Italian (it) Gige (Lidia)		235
8	Polish (pl) Gyges		192
9	Turkish (tr) Gigis		178
10	Japanese (ja) ギュゲス (リュディア)		144

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gyges of Lydia		130
2	German (de) Gyges		105
3	French (fr) Gygès		70
4	Italian (it) Gige (Lidia)		50
5	Russian (ru) Гиг		41
6	Dutch (nl) Gyges van Lydië		36
7	Polish (pl) Gyges		29
8	Hebrew (he) גיגס		27
9	Spanish (es) Giges de Lidia		24
10	Turkish (tr) Gigis		19

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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 "Gyges" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Urdu (ur) ژیگس		4
2	Italian (it) Gige (Lidia)		2
3	Japanese (ja) ギュゲス (リュディア)		2
4	Arabic (ar) جوجس		1
5	Belarusian (be) Гігес		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Гигес		0
7	Catalan (ca) Giges		0
8	Czech (cs) Gýgés		0
9	Danish (da) Gyges		0
10	German (de) Gyges		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 "Gyges" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Gyges of Lydia		100
2	Russian (ru) Гиг		59
3	Norwegian (no) Gyges		55
4	German (de) Gyges		54
5	French (fr) Gygès		51
6	Italian (it) Gige (Lidia)		48
7	Polish (pl) Gyges		45
8	Spanish (es) Giges de Lidia		44
9	Catalan (ca) Giges		36
10	Turkish (tr) Gigis		31

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جوجس
be	Belarusian Гігес
bg	Bulgarian Гигес
ca	Catalan Giges
cs	Czech Gýgés
da	Danish Gyges
de	German Gyges
el	Greek Γύγης
en	English Gyges of Lydia
eo	Esperanto Gigeso
es	Spanish Giges de Lidia
eu	Basque Giges
fa	Persian ژیگس
fi	Finnish Gyges (Lyydia)
fr	French Gygès
he	Hebrew גיגס
id	Indonesian Gyges dari Lidia
it	Italian Gige (Lidia)
ja	Japanese ギュゲス (リュディア)
ko	Korean 기게스 (리디아)
la	Latin Gyges
nl	Dutch Gyges van Lydië
no	Norwegian Gyges
pl	Polish Gyges
pt	Portuguese Giges da Lídia
ru	Russian Гиг
sh	Serbo-Croatian Gig od Lidije
sk	Slovak Gyges
sl	Slovenian Gig
sr	Serbian Гиг
sv	Swedish Gyges
tr	Turkish Gigis
uk	Ukrainian Гігес
ur	Urdu ژیگس

Best Rank

Norwegian: #41586 01.2026

Global: #119840 01.2018

Best Rank

Norwegian: #2543 02.2022

Global: #6216 06.2004

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