Battle of Manzikert

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Battle of Manzikert - battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks in 1071. This event is the 596^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 191^st most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Manzikert” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3919^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 191^st most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 596^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5665^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6706^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Battle of Manzikert” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5665^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6706^th place).

Since the creation of article “Battle of Manzikert”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3919^th place) and edited by 2191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Manzikert is on the 191^st place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 596^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4548 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #27 in November 2021
• Global: #2074 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #984 in October 2020
• Global: #8965 in August 2020

There are 48 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) Battle of Manzikert		78.3836
2	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		77.313
3	Uzbek (uz) Malazgirt jangi		57.9374
4	Azerbaijani (az) Malazgird döyüşü		57.6808
5	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Mantzikerte		56.5903
6	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Manzicerta		56.4533
7	Czech (cs) Bitva u Mantzikertu		51.2204
8	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		50.792
9	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		47.3981
10	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Manzikert		46.8735

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		3 435 906
2	English (en) Battle of Manzikert		3 323 765
3	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد (1071)		944 366
4	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		571 154
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		539 185
6	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		486 800
7	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		373 291
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		278 139
9	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		275 065
10	Italian (it) Battaglia di Manzicerta		201 451

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 Manzikert		19 196
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		9 370
3	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد (1071)		3 372
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		2 969
5	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		2 142
6	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		2 052
7	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		1 926
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		1 414
9	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		1 395
10	Italian (it) Battaglia di Manzicerta		1 162

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 Manzikert		461
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		293
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		143
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		124
5	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		112
6	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Manzikert		84
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Manzicerta		80
8	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		68
9	Hebrew (he) קרב מנזיקרט		56
10	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		51

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 Manzikert		13
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		5
3	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد (1071)		3
4	Korean (ko) 만지케르트 전투		2
5	Galician (gl) Batalla de Manzikert		1
6	Simple English (simple) Battle of Manzikert		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Malazgird döyüşü		0
8	Belarusian (be) Бітва пад Манцыкертам (1071)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Манцикерт		0
10	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Mantziciert		0

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

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