The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 1776–89 book by English historian Edward Gibbon. This book is the 894^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 341^st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 341^st most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 894^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9951^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1093 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is on the 341^st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 894^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1738 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #642 in November 2021
• Global: #1775 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9673 in September 2013
• Global: #35330 in October 2014

There are 31 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	Spanish (es) Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio romano		71.8325
2	French (fr) Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain		67.7852
3	English (en) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		45.856
4	Arabic (ar) تاريخ ضعف وسقوط الإمبراطورية الرومانية		33.3072
5	Esperanto (eo) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		31.4254
6	Simple English (simple) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		29.7817
7	German (de) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		25.0781
8	Basque (eu) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		24.6001
9	Catalan (ca) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		24.4846
10	Ukrainian (uk) Історія занепаду та загибелі Римської імперії (книга)		24.2549

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		3 817 568
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio romano		610 038
3	Japanese (ja) ローマ帝国衰亡史		229 883
4	Portuguese (pt) A História do Declínio e Queda do Império Romano		206 709
5	Chinese (zh) 罗马帝国衰亡史		198 334
6	French (fr) Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain		182 163
7	Russian (ru) История упадка и разрушения Римской империи		150 643
8	Italian (it) Storia della decadenza e caduta dell'Impero romano		132 432
9	German (de) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		118 036
10	Polish (pl) Zmierzch Cesarstwa Rzymskiego		51 347

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) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		16 894
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio romano		1 292
3	Japanese (ja) ローマ帝国衰亡史		1 166
4	Russian (ru) История упадка и разрушения Римской империи		1 157
5	Chinese (zh) 罗马帝国衰亡史		1 098
6	French (fr) Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain		747
7	Simple English (simple) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		719
8	Italian (it) Storia della decadenza e caduta dell'Impero romano		672
9	German (de) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		479
10	Portuguese (pt) A História do Declínio e Queda do Império Romano		343

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		521
2	French (fr) Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain		77
3	Spanish (es) Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio romano		63
4	Italian (it) Storia della decadenza e caduta dell'Impero romano		58
5	Portuguese (pt) A História do Declínio e Queda do Império Romano		46
6	Dutch (nl) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		45
7	German (de) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		32
8	Chinese (zh) 罗马帝国衰亡史		32
9	Hebrew (he) שקיעתה ונפילתה של הקיסרות הרומאית		26
10	Japanese (ja) ローマ帝国衰亡史		23

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	French (fr) Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain		3
2	Italian (it) Storia della decadenza e caduta dell'Impero romano		2
3	Latin (la) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1
4	Russian (ru) История упадка и разрушения Римской империи		1
5	Arabic (ar) تاريخ ضعف وسقوط الإمبراطورية الرومانية		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Залез и упадък на Римската империя		0
7	Catalan (ca) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		0
8	Czech (cs) Úpadek a pád římské říše		0
9	German (de) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		0
10	English (en) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		0

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

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