Edessa

Edessa - ancient city in upper Mesopotamia, modern day Urfa, Southeast Turkey. This city is the 2135^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 780^th most popular city in Turkish Wikipedia. Article “Edessa” in Turkish Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Turkish) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Edessa” was edited by 1 authors in Turkish Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Edessa”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia and edited by 763 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Edessa is on the 780^th place in local ranking of cities in Turkish Wikipedia and on the 2135^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 630 times in Turkish Wikipedia (4944^th place) and cited 6219 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #1715 in July 2022
• Global: #8933 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #12695 in February 2023
• Global: #76144 in December 2024

There are 28 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	English (en) Edessa		68.4323
2	Turkish (tr) Edessa		54.6005
3	Korean (ko) 에데사 (메소포타미아)		49.7153
4	Arabic (ar) الرها		41.1873
5	French (fr) Édesse (Osroène)		34.2657
6	Persian (fa) ادسا		29.5813
7	Swedish (sv) Edessa		25.1268
8	Italian (it) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		25.0068
9	Ukrainian (uk) Едеса		22.4831
10	Russian (ru) Эдесса		21.4034

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Edessa" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edessa		1 725 798
2	Russian (ru) Эдесса		374 854
3	Spanish (es) Edesa		313 536
4	Italian (it) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		166 131
5	Arabic (ar) الرها		141 976
6	Persian (fa) ادسا		106 017
7	French (fr) Édesse (Osroène)		104 727
8	Turkish (tr) Edessa		83 380
9	Swedish (sv) Edessa		67 859
10	Portuguese (pt) Edessa (Mesopotâmia)		50 582

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Edessa" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edessa		11 657
2	Russian (ru) Эдесса		2 234
3	Spanish (es) Edesa		1 508
4	French (fr) Édesse (Osroène)		1 084
5	Italian (it) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		877
6	Turkish (tr) Edessa		838
7	Arabic (ar) الرها		714
8	Persian (fa) ادسا		533
9	Portuguese (pt) Edessa (Mesopotâmia)		280
10	Greek (el) Έδεσσα Μεσοποταμίας		220

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

Language versions of the article "Edessa" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edessa		255
2	Russian (ru) Эдесса		68
3	Italian (it) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		66
4	Spanish (es) Edesa		42
5	French (fr) Édesse (Osroène)		38
6	Swedish (sv) Edessa		32
7	Arabic (ar) الرها		31
8	Greek (el) Έδεσσα Μεσοποταμίας		25
9	Persian (fa) ادسا		25
10	Norwegian (no) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		23

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

Language versions of the article "Edessa" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Edessa (Mesopotàmia)		2
2	Greek (el) Έδεσσα Μεσοποταμίας		1
3	Turkish (tr) Edessa		1
4	Chinese (zh) 埃德薩		1
5	Arabic (ar) الرها		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Едеса		0
7	English (en) Edessa		0
8	Spanish (es) Edesa		0
9	Estonian (et) Edessa		0
10	Basque (eu) Edesa (Mesopotamia)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Edessa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Edessa		1 987
2	Turkish (tr) Edessa		630
3	Catalan (ca) Edessa (Mesopotàmia)		374
4	Russian (ru) Эдесса		360
5	Italian (it) Edessa (Mesopotamia)		338
6	Spanish (es) Edesa		281
7	Persian (fa) ادسا		260
8	French (fr) Édesse (Osroène)		258
9	Portuguese (pt) Edessa (Mesopotâmia)		257
10	Arabic (ar) الرها		161

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الرها
bg	Bulgarian Едеса
ca	Catalan Edessa (Mesopotàmia)
el	Greek Έδεσσα Μεσοποταμίας
en	English Edessa
es	Spanish Edesa
et	Estonian Edessa
eu	Basque Edesa (Mesopotamia)
fa	Persian ادسا
fr	French Édesse (Osroène)
gl	Galician Edesa
hr	Croatian Edessa (Mezopotamija)
hy	Armenian Եդեսիա
id	Indonesian Edessa, Mesopotamia
it	Italian Edessa (Mesopotamia)
ka	Georgian ედესა
ko	Korean 에데사 (메소포타미아)
no	Norwegian Edessa (Mesopotamia)
pt	Portuguese Edessa (Mesopotâmia)
ro	Romanian Edessa
ru	Russian Эдесса
sh	Serbo-Croatian Edessa (Mezopotamija)
sr	Serbian Едеса (Месопотамија)
sv	Swedish Edessa
tr	Turkish Edessa
uk	Ukrainian Едеса
vi	Vietnamese Edessa
zh	Chinese 埃德薩

Best Rank

Turkish: #12695 02.2023

Global: #76144 12.2024

Best Rank

Turkish: #1715 07.2022

Global: #8933 08.2003

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