Battle of Thermopylae

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Battle of Thermopylae - battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece. This event is the 77^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 182^nd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Thermopylae” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 6 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 9475^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 182^nd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2985^th most popular in all topics.

The 2442^nd most popular in AI.

The 77^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5818^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6312^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Thermopylae”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9475^th place) and edited by 4742 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2442^nd place).

Battle of Thermopylae is on the 182^nd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 77^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3132 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #211 in April 2014
• Global: #34 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3515 in May 2024
• Global: #400 in March 2014

There are 51 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 Thermopylae		100
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		100
3	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		100
4	Turkish (tr) Thermopylae Muharebesi		100
5	Croatian (hr) Bitka kod Termopila		100
6	Catalan (ca) Batalla de les Termòpiles (480 aC)		100
7	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		96.6829
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Termopilska bitka		94.637
9	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Termopylách		93.8462
10	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		91.8519

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Thermopylae		23 388 472
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		5 562 168
3	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		3 359 577
4	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		2 884 624
5	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		2 648 264
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		2 575 663
7	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		2 120 058
8	Japanese (ja) テルモピュライの戦い		1 848 780
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha das Termópilas		1 343 034
10	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		1 201 606

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 Thermopylae		69 845
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		13 634
3	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		9 362
4	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		8 737
5	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		8 119
6	Japanese (ja) テルモピュライの戦い		6 981
7	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		6 951
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		4 256
9	Serbian (sr) Термопилска битка		4 063
10	Turkish (tr) Thermopylae Muharebesi		3 430

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 Thermopylae		1 671
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		269
3	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		263
4	French (fr) Bataille des Thermopyles		263
5	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		249
6	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		165
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Termopilami		154
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Thermopylae (480 v.Chr.)		127
9	Hebrew (he) קרב תרמופילאי		94
10	Hungarian (hu) Thermopülai csata (i. e. 480)		90

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	German (de) Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege)		8
2	English (en) Battle of Thermopylae		5
3	Italian (it) Battaglia delle Termopili		4
4	Czech (cs) Bitva u Thermopyl		2
5	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Термопилите		1
6	Greek (el) Μάχη των Θερμοπυλών		1
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de las Termópilas		1
8	Galician (gl) Batalla das Termópilas (-480)		1
9	Japanese (ja) テルモピュライの戦い		1
10	Russian (ru) Фермопильское сражение		1

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

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