Mehter

Ottoman military band - Ottoman Empire military band. Article “Mehter” in Turkish Wikipedia has 99.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 201 references and 29 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Mehter”, its content was written by 120 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia (2234^th place) and edited by 437 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 132 times in Turkish Wikipedia and cited 435 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #133 in December 2015
• Global: #23170 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #136 in March 2017
• Global: #38563 in March 2017

There are 14 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	Turkish (tr) Mehter		99.8554
2	German (de) Mehterhâne		64.073
3	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		54.8957
4	Chinese (zh) 鄂圖曼軍樂隊		52.2838
5	English (en) Ottoman military band		45.7935
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Mehter		42.7601
7	Japanese (ja) メフテル		24.8684
8	Persian (fa) مهترخانه		17.9891
9	Spanish (es) Mehteran (Banda militar otomana)		15.6685
10	Indonesian (id) Mehter		12.4853

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) Mehter		877 495
2	English (en) Ottoman military band		722 978
3	Japanese (ja) メフテル		441 352
4	German (de) Mehterhâne		97 122
5	French (fr) Mehter		43 151
6	Indonesian (id) Mehter		11 117
7	Chinese (zh) 鄂圖曼軍樂隊		9 668
8	Arabic (ar) مهترخانه		6 029
9	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		5 611
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Mehter		5 301

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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 "Mehter" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ottoman military band		2 726
2	Turkish (tr) Mehter		1 667
3	Japanese (ja) メフテル		1 106
4	German (de) Mehterhâne		243
5	Chinese (zh) 鄂圖曼軍樂隊		195
6	French (fr) Mehter		125
7	Spanish (es) Mehteran (Banda militar otomana)		68
8	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		61
9	Persian (fa) مهترخانه		53
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Mehter		51

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ottoman military band		137
2	Turkish (tr) Mehter		120
3	German (de) Mehterhâne		53
4	French (fr) Mehter		42
5	Japanese (ja) メフテル		37
6	Catalan (ca) Banda militar otomana		8
7	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		8
8	Arabic (ar) مهترخانه		6
9	Indonesian (id) Mehter		6
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Mehter		6

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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 "Mehter" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Mehteran (Banda militar otomana)		1
2	Indonesian (id) Mehter		1
3	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		1
4	Arabic (ar) مهترخانه		0
5	Catalan (ca) Banda militar otomana		0
6	German (de) Mehterhâne		0
7	English (en) Ottoman military band		0
8	Persian (fa) مهترخانه		0
9	French (fr) Mehter		0
10	Japanese (ja) メフテル		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 "Mehter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ottoman military band		150
2	Turkish (tr) Mehter		132
3	Japanese (ja) メフテル		55
4	German (de) Mehterhâne		26
5	Italian (it) Mehterhâne		18
6	Arabic (ar) مهترخانه		15
7	French (fr) Mehter		15
8	Urdu (ur) مہتران		7
9	Persian (fa) مهترخانه		4
10	Catalan (ca) Banda militar otomana		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مهترخانه
ca	Catalan Banda militar otomana
de	German Mehterhâne
en	English Ottoman military band
es	Spanish Mehteran (Banda militar otomana)
fa	Persian مهترخانه
fr	French Mehter
id	Indonesian Mehter
it	Italian Mehterhâne
ja	Japanese メフテル
sh	Serbo-Croatian Mehter
tr	Turkish Mehter
ur	Urdu مہتران
zh	Chinese 鄂圖曼軍樂隊

Best Rank

Turkish: #136 03.2017

Global: #38563 03.2017

Best Rank

Turkish: #133 12.2015

Global: #23170 11.2003

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