Fortification

Quality:

Fortification - military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Article “Fortification” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Fortification”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 276 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 29334 times in all languages (5779^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1010 in January 2008
• Global: #5495 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2181 in January 2026
• Global: #18326 in January 2008

There are 45 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	Armenian (hy) Ֆորտիֆիկացիա		79.5055
2	Catalan (ca) Fortificació		78.9704
3	English (en) Fortification		72.1444
4	Swedish (sv) Befästning		60.323
5	Turkish (tr) Tahkimat		52.8467
6	Italian (it) Fortificazione		49.1969
7	Ukrainian (uk) Фортифікація		46.3103
8	French (fr) Fortification		43.7616
9	Croatian (hr) Utvrdno graditeljstvo		38.5657
10	Esperanto (eo) Fortikaĵo		34.7215

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fortification		5 852 052
2	French (fr) Fortification		632 078
3	Polish (pl) Fortyfikacja		486 754
4	Spanish (es) Fortificación		485 767
5	Russian (ru) Фортификационное сооружение		397 686
6	German (de) Befestigung		337 239
7	Italian (it) Fortificazione		238 676
8	Arabic (ar) حصن		157 694
9	Ukrainian (uk) Фортифікація		152 343
10	Swedish (sv) Befästning		111 839

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) Fortification		12 180
2	French (fr) Fortification		1 171
3	Russian (ru) Фортификационное сооружение		924
4	German (de) Befestigung		821
5	Polish (pl) Fortyfikacja		536
6	Spanish (es) Fortificación		500
7	Italian (it) Fortificazione		384
8	Chinese (zh) 防御工事		377
9	Japanese (ja) 築城 (城)		264
10	Swedish (sv) Befästning		258

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fortification		618
2	French (fr) Fortification		212
3	Italian (it) Fortificazione		90
4	Polish (pl) Fortyfikacja		85
5	German (de) Befestigung		64
6	Spanish (es) Fortificación		64
7	Dutch (nl) Verdedigingswerk		51
8	Croatian (hr) Utvrdno graditeljstvo		44
9	Swedish (sv) Befästning		42
10	Hebrew (he) ביצורים		40

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) Fortification		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) İstehkam		1
3	Catalan (ca) Fortificació		1
4	Basque (eu) Gotorleku		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Фортифікація		1
6	Arabic (ar) حصن		0
7	Belarusian (be) Абарончае збудаванне		0
8	Czech (cs) Opevnění		0
9	German (de) Befestigung		0
10	Greek (el) Οχύρωμα		0

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

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