Defense of Van (1915)

Siege of Van - 1915 siege. This event is the 9486^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Defense of Van (1915)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 33 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Defense of Van (1915)”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 719 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Siege of Van is on the 9486^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1702 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2913 in July 2007
• Global: #6758 in May 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10494 in November 2024
• Global: #67040 in March 2015

There are 22 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	Catalan (ca) Setge de Van		100
2	Polish (pl) Obrona Wanu (1915)		98.1211
3	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		96.6904
4	French (fr) Défense de Van		88.1507
5	Serbian (sr) Одбрана Вана (1915)		82.6484
6	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		82.159
7	Russian (ru) Ванское сражение		71.4683
8	Persian (fa) مقاومت وان		55.334
9	Spanish (es) Sitio de Van		38.4913
10	Simple English (simple) Defense of Van (1915)		32.9568

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Defense of Van (1915)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		310 000
2	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		153 690
3	Russian (ru) Ванское сражение		118 658
4	German (de) Aufstand von Van		46 651
5	Armenian (hy) Վանի հերոսամարտ		45 227
6	French (fr) Défense de Van		39 083
7	Spanish (es) Sitio de Van		31 297
8	Persian (fa) مقاومت وان		12 372
9	Italian (it) Resistenza di Van		12 273
10	Hungarian (hu) Van-tó melletti csata		7 809

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defense of Van (1915)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		2 574
2	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		1 228
3	Russian (ru) Ванское сражение		399
4	Armenian (hy) Վանի հերոսամարտ		374
5	German (de) Aufstand von Van		183
6	Spanish (es) Sitio de Van		113
7	French (fr) Défense de Van		101
8	Polish (pl) Obrona Wanu (1915)		59
9	Simple English (simple) Defense of Van (1915)		46
10	Persian (fa) مقاومت وان		34

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

Language versions of the article "Defense of Van (1915)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		264
2	German (de) Aufstand von Van		118
3	Russian (ru) Ванское сражение		64
4	French (fr) Défense de Van		48
5	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		33
6	Spanish (es) Sitio de Van		32
7	Hungarian (hu) Van-tó melletti csata		26
8	Italian (it) Resistenza di Van		26
9	Armenian (hy) Վանի հերոսամարտ		22
10	Simple English (simple) Defense of Van (1915)		12

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

Language versions of the article "Defense of Van (1915)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		2
2	Arabic (ar) حصار وان (1915)		0
3	Belarusian (be) Ванская бітва		0
4	Catalan (ca) Setge de Van		0
5	Czech (cs) Vanské povstání		0
6	German (de) Aufstand von Van		0
7	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Rezistado de Van		0
9	Spanish (es) Sitio de Van		0
10	Persian (fa) مقاومت وان		0

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

Language versions of the article "Defense of Van (1915)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defense of Van (1915)		366
2	Turkish (tr) Van İsyanı (1915)		300
3	French (fr) Défense de Van		190
4	Russian (ru) Ванское сражение		180
5	Italian (it) Resistenza di Van		145
6	Belarusian (be) Ванская бітва		109
7	Persian (fa) مقاومت وان		91
8	Armenian (hy) Վանի հերոսամարտ		91
9	Arabic (ar) حصار وان (1915)		36
10	Catalan (ca) Setge de Van		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حصار وان (1915)
be	Belarusian Ванская бітва
ca	Catalan Setge de Van
cs	Czech Vanské povstání
de	German Aufstand von Van
en	English Defense of Van (1915)
eo	Esperanto Rezistado de Van
es	Spanish Sitio de Van
fa	Persian مقاومت وان
fr	French Défense de Van
hu	Hungarian Van-tó melletti csata
hy	Armenian Վանի հերոսամարտ
id	Indonesian Pertahanan Van (1915)
it	Italian Resistenza di Van
ja	Japanese ヴァン攻囲戦
ka	Georgian ვანის ბრძოლა
pl	Polish Obrona Wanu (1915)
pt	Portuguese Resistência de Vã
ru	Russian Ванское сражение
simple	Simple English Defense of Van (1915)
sr	Serbian Одбрана Вана (1915)
tr	Turkish Van İsyanı (1915)

Best Rank

Simple English: #10494 11.2024

Global: #67040 03.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #2913 07.2007

Global: #6758 05.2015

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