Battle of Cannae

Quality:

Battle of Cannae - major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE). This event is the 456^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 519^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Cannae” in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 162 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 519^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 456^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5385^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7516^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Battle of Cannae” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Cannae”, its content was written by 615 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2486 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Cannae is on the 519^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 456^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 382 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #412 in January 2007
• Global: #1294 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3318 in June 2016
• Global: #5884 in June 2016

There are 44 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	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		92.8814
2	English (en) Battle of Cannae		90
3	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Cannae		89.939
4	Greek (el) Μάχη των Καννών		79.2876
5	Basque (eu) Cannaeko gudua		66.2236
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		65.6007
7	Hebrew (he) קרב קאנאי		61.4678
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		60.5765
9	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		55.5392
10	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Cannae		53.7892

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Cannae		6 835 232
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		1 180 342
3	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		1 087 109
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		1 079 016
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		961 615
6	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		916 102
7	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		638 083
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		607 218
9	Chinese (zh) 坎尼會戰		245 460
10	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Cannae		174 898

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) Battle of Cannae		99 677
2	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		6 244
3	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		4 725
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		4 355
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		3 966
6	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		3 906
7	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		3 388
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		1 719
9	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Cannae		1 542
10	Chinese (zh) 坎尼會戰		1 224

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Cannae		615
2	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		214
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		187
4	French (fr) Bataille de Cannes		157
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		123
6	Hebrew (he) קרב קאנאי		96
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Cannas		93
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Cannae		86
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Kannami		69
10	Japanese (ja) カンナエの戦い		58

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) Battle of Cannae		6
2	German (de) Schlacht von Cannae		5
3	Russian (ru) Битва при Каннах		3
4	Arabic (ar) معركة كاناي		2
5	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Кана		1
6	Galician (gl) Batalla de Cannas (216 a.C.)		1
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Canne		1
8	Chinese (zh) 坎尼會戰		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kanna döyüşü		0
10	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Cannes		0

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

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