Mehmed II

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Mehmed II - seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481). This person is the 1108^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 819^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Mehmed II” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6274^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 819^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3596^th most popular in all topics.

The 3323^rd most popular in AI.

The 1108^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 1339^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1609^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1410^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Mehmed II”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3323^rd place).

Mehmed II is on the 819^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1108^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14629 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #605 in August 2023
• Global: #127 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #282 in March 2024
• Global: #227 in January 2023

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, 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	Russian (ru) Мехмед II		100
2	German (de) Mehmed II.		100
3	Greek (el) Μωάμεθ Β΄ ο Πορθητής		100
4	Slovenian (sl) Mehmed II. Osvajalec		100
5	Arabic (ar) محمد الفاتح		99.2559
6	Indonesian (id) Mehmed II		97.9422
7	Turkish (tr) II. Mehmed		97.7516
8	English (en) Mehmed II		96.8572
9	Japanese (ja) メフメト2世		83.5188
10	Serbian (sr) Мехмед II Освајач		83.0484

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) II. Mehmed		12 688 773
2	English (en) Mehmed II		11 128 257
3	Arabic (ar) محمد الفاتح		5 952 039
4	Russian (ru) Мехмед II		3 797 054
5	Spanish (es) Mehmed II		1 759 783
6	German (de) Mehmed II.		1 589 651
7	Indonesian (id) Mehmed II		1 561 991
8	French (fr) Mehmed II		1 292 230
9	Persian (fa) محمد دوم		852 143
10	Italian (it) Maometto II		764 582

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) II. Mehmed		118 587
2	English (en) Mehmed II		80 596
3	Arabic (ar) محمد الفاتح		30 919
4	Russian (ru) Мехмед II		25 661
5	Spanish (es) Mehmed II		10 048
6	German (de) Mehmed II.		9 910
7	Persian (fa) محمد دوم		8 587
8	Hungarian (hu) II. Mehmed oszmán szultán		7 474
9	French (fr) Mehmed II		6 379
10	Indonesian (id) Mehmed II		4 772

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mehmed II		983
2	Turkish (tr) II. Mehmed		533
3	German (de) Mehmed II.		261
4	French (fr) Mehmed II		243
5	Arabic (ar) محمد الفاتح		187
6	Russian (ru) Мехмед II		175
7	Italian (it) Maometto II		146
8	Dutch (nl) Mehmet II		144
9	Persian (fa) محمد دوم		111
10	Spanish (es) Mehmed II		91

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) Mehmed II		28
2	Russian (ru) Мехмед II		7
3	Turkish (tr) II. Mehmed		6
4	Greek (el) Μωάμεθ Β΄ ο Πορθητής		2
5	French (fr) Mehmed II		2
6	Arabic (ar) محمد الفاتح		1
7	Catalan (ca) Mehmet II		1
8	Spanish (es) Mehmed II		1
9	Hebrew (he) מהמט השני		1
10	Hungarian (hu) II. Mehmed oszmán szultán		1

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

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