Battle of Adwa

Battle of Adwa - battle between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty. This event is the 1505^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Battle of Adwa” in English Wikipedia has 92.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 99 references and 18 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Battle of Adwa”, its content was written by 411 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Adwa is on the 1505^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 256 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1675 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #790 in January 2002
• Global: #931 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16958 in March 2021
• Global: #22401 in March 2021

There are 33 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	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		100
2	English (en) Battle of Adwa		92.5406
3	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Adwa		77.3308
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		52.6339
5	Turkish (tr) Adowa Muharebesi		38.1923
6	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		34.8116
7	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		33.0057
8	Malay (ms) Pertempuran Adwa		32.6666
9	Armenian (hy) Ադուայի ճակատամարտ		31.0654
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		30.4524

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		2 451 920
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		969 869
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		353 107
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		264 876
5	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		189 355
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		141 142
7	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		123 950
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Aduą		115 437
9	Chinese (zh) 阿杜瓦战役		64 516
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		49 869

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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 "Battle of Adwa" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		8 808
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		3 962
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		1 362
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		902
5	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		848
6	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		594
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		574
8	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		393
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Aduą		316
10	Arabic (ar) معركة عدوة		314

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Adwa		411
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		157
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		131
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		97
5	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		54
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		40
7	Hebrew (he) קרב עדווה		40
8	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		35
9	Norwegian (no) Slaget ved Adwa		32
10	Galician (gl) Batalla de Adua		29

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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 "Battle of Adwa" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Finnish (fi) Adowan taistelu		1
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		1
3	Galician (gl) Batalla de Adua		1
4	Arabic (ar) معركة عدوة		0
5	Catalan (ca) Batalla d'Adwa		0
6	Czech (cs) Bitva u Adwy		0
7	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		0
8	Greek (el) Μάχη της Άντουα		0
9	English (en) Battle of Adwa		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Batalo de Adva		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 "Battle of Adwa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Battaglia di Adua		523
2	English (en) Battle of Adwa		256
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Adoua		230
4	German (de) Schlacht von Adua		82
5	Russian (ru) Сражение при Адуа		68
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Adua		63
7	Hebrew (he) קרב עדווה		38
8	Japanese (ja) アドワの戦い		37
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Aduá		34
10	Chinese (zh) 阿杜瓦战役		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة عدوة
ca	Catalan Batalla d'Adwa
cs	Czech Bitva u Adwy
de	German Schlacht von Adua
el	Greek Μάχη της Άντουα
en	English Battle of Adwa
eo	Esperanto Batalo de Adva
es	Spanish Batalla de Adua
et	Estonian Adua lahing
eu	Basque Adwako gudua
fa	Persian جنگ آدوا
fi	Finnish Adowan taistelu
fr	French Bataille d'Adoua
gl	Galician Batalla de Adua
he	Hebrew קרב עדווה
hr	Croatian Bitka kod Adve
hy	Armenian Ադուայի ճակատամարտ
id	Indonesian Pertempuran Adwa
it	Italian Battaglia di Adua
ja	Japanese アドワの戦い
ko	Korean 아두와 전투
ms	Malay Pertempuran Adwa
nl	Dutch Slag bij Adwa
no	Norwegian Slaget ved Adwa
pl	Polish Bitwa pod Aduą
pt	Portuguese Batalha de Aduá
ru	Russian Сражение при Адуа
sr	Serbian Битка код Адве
sv	Swedish Slaget vid Adua
th	Thai ยุทธการอัดวา
tr	Turkish Adowa Muharebesi
uk	Ukrainian Битва при Адуа
zh	Chinese 阿杜瓦战役

Best Rank

English: #16958 03.2021

Global: #22401 03.2021

Best Rank

English: #790 01.2002

Global: #931 01.2002

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