Battle of Marathon

Quality:

Battle of Marathon - 490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars. This event is the 311^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 113^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Marathon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 52.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 5 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 6416^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5710^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 113^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6751^st most popular in AI.

The 311^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3166^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Marathon”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5710^th place) and edited by 3113 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6751^st place).

Battle of Marathon is on the 113^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 311^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 48 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3447 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #136 in July 2018
• Global: #170 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2425 in October 2016
• Global: #3137 in March 2014

There are 52 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) Battle of Marathon		100
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		100
3	Turkish (tr) Maraton Muharebesi		100
4	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Marathon		100
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		97.625
6	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		91.258
7	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		76.8697
8	Azerbaijani (az) Marafon döyüşü		71.9568
9	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		70.7467
10	Armenian (hy) Մարաթոնի ճակատամարտ		62.3634

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Marathon		7 460 371
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		1 851 745
3	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		1 473 716
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		1 341 628
5	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		1 302 142
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		1 219 549
7	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		1 071 676
8	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		1 049 312
9	Japanese (ja) マラトンの戦い		563 477
10	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		375 558

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 Marathon		25 420
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		3 523
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		3 044
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		2 927
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		2 749
6	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		2 685
7	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		2 163
8	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαραθώνα		2 008
9	Japanese (ja) マラトンの戦い		1 383
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		1 132

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 Marathon		755
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Marathon		239
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Maratona		200
4	French (fr) Bataille de Marathon		185
5	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Marathon		133
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Марафоне		124
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Maratón		115
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Maratonem		98
9	Persian (fa) نبرد ماراتون		84
10	Hungarian (hu) Marathóni csata		74

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 Marathon		4
2	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Marató		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Marathóni csata		1
4	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Maratóne		1
5	Urdu (ur) جنگ میراثون		1
6	Arabic (ar) معركة ماراثون		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Marafon döyüşü		0
8	Belarusian (be) Марафонская бітва		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Маратон		0
10	Czech (cs) Bitva u Marathónu		0

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

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