Darius the Great

Quality:

Darius I - The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC). This person is the 3119^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Darius the Great” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4811^th most popular in AI.

The 3119^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Darius the Great”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3663 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4811^th place).

Darius I is on the 3119^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17689 times in all languages (9827^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #175 in February 2026
• Global: #410 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1538 in February 2026
• 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, 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	Turkish (tr) I. Darius		100
2	English (en) Darius the Great		98.4177
3	Latin (la) Darius I (rex Persarum)		96.8629
4	Russian (ru) Дарий I		84.1373
5	Hungarian (hu) I. Dárajavaus perzsa király		79.7463
6	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		78.4091
7	Indonesian (id) Darius I dari Persia		74.71
8	Croatian (hr) Darije I. Veliki		70.1044
9	German (de) Dareios I.		68.9207
10	Norwegian (no) Dareios I av Persia		68.9092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Darius the Great		10 454 734
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		2 507 086
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		2 298 078
4	Spanish (es) Darío I		2 037 627
5	French (fr) Darius Ier		1 234 960
6	German (de) Dareios I.		847 984
7	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		783 362
8	Portuguese (pt) Dario I		750 152
9	Japanese (ja) ダレイオス1世		657 689
10	Polish (pl) Dariusz I Wielki		634 237

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		38 884
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		13 590
3	Russian (ru) Дарий I		5 218
4	Spanish (es) Darío I		4 674
5	French (fr) Darius Ier		3 931
6	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		2 722
7	German (de) Dareios I.		2 686
8	Japanese (ja) ダレイオス1世		2 657
9	Portuguese (pt) Dario I		1 714
10	Chinese (zh) 大流士一世		1 653

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		864
2	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		337
3	German (de) Dareios I.		225
4	French (fr) Darius Ier		181
5	Russian (ru) Дарий I		169
6	Italian (it) Dario I di Persia		159
7	Spanish (es) Darío I		115
8	Dutch (nl) Darius I		110
9	Hungarian (hu) I. Dárajavaus perzsa király		89
10	Hebrew (he) דריווש הראשון		83

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	Azerbaijani (az) I Dara		1
3	Persian (fa) داریوش بزرگ		1
4	French (fr) Darius Ier		1
5	Galician (gl) Darío I		1
6	Japanese (ja) ダレイオス1世		1
7	Korean (ko) 다리우스 1세		1
8	Russian (ru) Дарий I		1
9	Serbian (sr) Дарије I		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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