Early modern period

Quality:

Early modern period - the era from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Article “Early modern period” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9502^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5834^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3962^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Early modern period” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3962^nd place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Early modern period”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2565 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28450 times in all languages (5935^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #448 in June 2014
• Global: #2494 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2250 in September 2020
• Global: #2232 in September 2009

There are 40 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	Norwegian (no) Tidlig moderne tid		100
2	English (en) Early modern period		93.0402
3	Italian (it) Età moderna		85.194
4	Arabic (ar) الحقبة الحديثة المبكرة		79.5428
5	Catalan (ca) Edat moderna		76.4118
6	Portuguese (pt) Idade Moderna		72.3749
7	Dutch (nl) Vroegmoderne tijd		69.0347
8	Spanish (es) Edad Moderna		66.8343
9	Russian (ru) Раннее Новое время		63.6373
10	Hebrew (he) העת החדשה המוקדמת		51.1879

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Edad Moderna		16 356 378
2	English (en) Early modern period		6 213 066
3	Portuguese (pt) Idade Moderna		3 788 005
4	French (fr) Époque moderne		2 911 741
5	German (de) Frühe Neuzeit		2 027 198
6	Italian (it) Età moderna		1 698 290
7	Japanese (ja) 近世		1 027 750
8	Polish (pl) Nowożytność		1 020 004
9	Catalan (ca) Edat moderna		711 560
10	Dutch (nl) Vroegmoderne tijd		633 092

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) Early modern period		22 752
2	Spanish (es) Edad Moderna		8 196
3	French (fr) Époque moderne		5 206
4	German (de) Frühe Neuzeit		3 998
5	Italian (it) Età moderna		2 662
6	Japanese (ja) 近世		2 554
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade Moderna		2 169
8	Polish (pl) Nowożytność		1 303
9	Russian (ru) Раннее Новое время		1 126
10	Turkish (tr) Yeni Çağ		1 072

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Early modern period		451
2	Spanish (es) Edad Moderna		389
3	German (de) Frühe Neuzeit		281
4	French (fr) Époque moderne		259
5	Dutch (nl) Vroegmoderne tijd		157
6	Italian (it) Età moderna		146
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade Moderna		138
8	Catalan (ca) Edat moderna		89
9	Polish (pl) Nowożytność		73
10	Japanese (ja) 近世		56

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) Early modern period		5
2	French (fr) Époque moderne		2
3	Italian (it) Età moderna		2
4	Arabic (ar) الحقبة الحديثة المبكرة		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Erkən modern dövr		1
6	Basque (eu) Aro Modernoa		1
7	Korean (ko) 근세		1
8	Simple English (simple) Early modern period		1
9	Serbian (sr) Rani novi vek		1
10	Belarusian (be) Ранні Новы час		0

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

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