Varangian Guard

Quality:

Varangian Guard - elite unit of the Byzantine Army from the 10th to 14th century. Article “Varangian Guard” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Varangian Guard”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 639 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2303 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5621 in August 2015
• Global: #8286 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9200 in June 2026
• Global: #11279 in July 2024

There are 29 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	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		95.4533
2	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		89.4273
3	Belarusian (be) Варажская варта		76.0916
4	English (en) Varangian Guard		74.0999
5	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		65.0105
6	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		59.9554
7	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		54.2527
8	French (fr) Garde varangienne		53.315
9	Finnish (fi) Varjagikaarti		43.969
10	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		43.5534

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varangian Guard		3 703 868
2	German (de) Warägergarde		365 078
3	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		300 192
4	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		230 345
5	French (fr) Garde varangienne		182 845
6	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		167 834
7	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		165 869
8	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		92 175
9	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		86 025
10	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		59 542

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) Varangian Guard		24 530
2	German (de) Warägergarde		1 712
3	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		1 134
4	French (fr) Garde varangienne		1 022
5	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		1 016
6	Chinese (zh) 瓦兰吉卫队		802
7	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		721
8	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		711
9	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		431
10	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		361

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varangian Guard		148
2	French (fr) Garde varangienne		67
3	Italian (it) Guardia variaga		51
4	German (de) Warägergarde		48
5	Russian (ru) Варяжская стража		48
6	Polish (pl) Gwardia wareska		39
7	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		38
8	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		27
9	Turkish (tr) Vareg Muhafızları		25
10	Finnish (fi) Varjagikaarti		24

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) Varangian Guard		1
2	Swedish (sv) Väringagardet		1
3	Arabic (ar) الحرس الفارانجي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Varyaq mühafizəçiləri		0
5	Belarusian (be) Варажская варта		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Варяжка тагма		0
7	Catalan (ca) Guàrdia varega		0
8	German (de) Warägergarde		0
9	Greek (el) Βαράγγειος Φρουρά		0
10	Spanish (es) Guardia varega		0

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

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