Варяжская стража

Quality:

Varangian Guard - elite unit of the Byzantine Army from the 10th to 14th century. Article "Варяжская стража" in Russian Wikipedia has 89.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 185 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article "Варяжская стража", its content was written by 47 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 618 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 124 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 2249 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #269 in October 2015
• Global: #8269 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #9716 in October 2015
• Global: #11322 in July 2024

There are 29 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	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		89.3905
2	Belarusian (be) Варажская варта		76.2921
3	English (en) Varangian Guard		74.4042
4	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		64.8105
5	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		60.0474
6	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		55.4806
7	French (fr) Garde varangienne		53.4362
8	Finnish (fi) Varjagikaarti		43.9873
9	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		43.5517
10	Armenian (hy) Վարյագյան գունդ		30.7936

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varangian Guard		3 429 469
2	German (de) Warägergarde		338 994
3	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		282 338
4	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		213 866
5	French (fr) Garde varangienne		169 396
6	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		158 811
7	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		156 614
8	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		85 583
9	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		79 165
10	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		51 192

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) Varangian Guard		21 667
2	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		1 376
3	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		1 376
4	German (de) Warägergarde		1 344
5	French (fr) Garde varangienne		1 087
6	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		943
7	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		633
8	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		550
9	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		516
10	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		365

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varangian Guard		141
2	French (fr) Garde varangienne		64
3	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		48
4	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		47
5	German (de) Warägergarde		46
6	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		38
7	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		37
8	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		26
9	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		25
10	Finnish (fi) Varjagikaarti		24

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	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		4
2	French (fr) Garde varangienne		1
3	Arabic (ar) الحرس الفارانجي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Varyaq mühafizəçiləri		0
5	Belarusian (be) Варажская варта		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Варяжка тагма		0
7	Catalan (ca) Guàrdia varega		0
8	German (de) Warägergarde		0
9	Greek (el) Βαράγγειος Φρουρά		0
10	English (en) Varangian Guard		0

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

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