Darius I

Quality:

Darius I of Persia - The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC). This person is the 3098^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 575^th most popular person in Romanian Wikipedia. Article “Darius I” in Romanian Wikipedia has 25.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.33 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 2869^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia.

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The 2950^th most editable in Romanian Wikipedia.

The 575^th most popular in people in Romanian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4805^th most popular in AI.

The 3098^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 1952^nd most popular in Romanian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7606^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Darius I”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia (2950^th place) and edited by 3611 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4805^th place).

Darius I of Persia is on the 575^th place in local ranking of people in Romanian Wikipedia and on the 3098^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 120 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 17495 times in all languages (9540^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #25 in February 2022
• Global: #410 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #305 in May 2019
• Global: #2716 in February 2024

There are 53 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) Darius the Great		99.0177
2	Latin (la) Darius I (rex Persarum)		95.5299
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		83.9668
4	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		82.8094
5	Hungarian (hu) I. Dárajavaus perzsa király		79.68
6	Indonesian (id) Darius I dari Persia		77.3139
7	Croatian (hr) Darije I. Veliki		70.2016
8	Norwegian (no) Dareios I av Persia		69.2459
9	German (de) Dareios I.		65.6373
10	Tamil (ta) முதலாம் டேரியஸ்		63.6703

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Darius the Great		9 851 139
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		2 342 768
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		2 069 457
4	Spanish (es) Darío I		1 955 869
5	French (fr) Darius Ier		1 171 484
6	German (de) Dareios I.		809 149
7	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		746 689
8	Portuguese (pt) Dario I		724 784
9	Japanese (ja) ダレイオス1世		620 141
10	Polish (pl) Dariusz I Wielki		608 042

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) Darius the Great		61 471
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		10 647
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		9 440
4	Spanish (es) Darío I		8 923
5	French (fr) Darius Ier		5 549
6	Chinese (zh) 大流士一世		3 823
7	Japanese (ja) ダレイオス1世		3 750
8	Portuguese (pt) Dario I		3 554
9	Turkish (tr) I. Darius		3 399
10	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		3 206

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Darius the Great		839
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		332
3	German (de) Dareios I.		223
4	French (fr) Darius Ier		176
5	Russian (ru) Дарий I		165
6	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		157
7	Spanish (es) Darío I		112
8	Dutch (nl) Darius I		109
9	Hungarian (hu) I. Dárajavaus perzsa király		87
10	Hebrew (he) דריווש הראשון		82

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) Darius the Great		8
2	Korean (ko) 다리우스 1세		2
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		2
4	Esperanto (eo) Dario la 1-a		1
5	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		1
6	Hebrew (he) דריווש הראשון		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Darej I.		1
8	Serbian (sr) Дарије I		1
9	Chinese (zh) 大流士一世		1
10	Arabic (ar) دارا الأول		0

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

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