Battle of Manzikert

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Battle of Manzikert - battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks in 1071. This event is the 516^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 979^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "Battle of Manzikert" in English Wikipedia has 80.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 80 references and 10 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 979^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 516^th most popular in events.

In July 2024 the article "Battle of Manzikert" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Battle of Manzikert", its content was written by 421 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2087 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Manzikert is on the 979^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 516^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 609 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4398 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #586 in November 2002
• Global: #2077 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26145 in August 2020
• Global: #8695 in August 2020

There are 48 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Battle of Manzikert		80.2721
2	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		77.2665
3	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Mantzikerte		62.6409
4	Uzbek (uz) Malazgirt jangi		58.9727
5	Azerbaijani (az) Malazgird döyüşü		56.3896
6	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Manziquerta		56.2327
7	Czech (cs) Bitva u Mantzikertu		51.432
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Manzikert		47.319
9	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		47.0425
10	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		47.0364

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		3 248 424
2	English (en) Battle of Manzikert		3 104 799
3	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد		889 580
4	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		547 415
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		500 513
6	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		440 322
7	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		349 284
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		260 666
9	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		256 525
10	Italian (it) Battaglia di Manzicerta		188 589

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 Manzikert		24 530
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		12 692
3	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد		6 062
4	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		4 632
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		4 045
6	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		2 887
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		2 030
8	Greek (el) Μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ		1 608
9	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		1 547
10	Georgian (ka) მანასკერტის ბრძოლა		1 273

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 Manzikert		421
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		272
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		139
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Манцикерте		120
5	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		107
6	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Manzikert		84
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Manzicerta		78
8	Persian (fa) نبرد ملازگرد		58
9	Hebrew (he) קרב מנזיקרט		56
10	Spanish (es) Batalla de Manzikert		50

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 Manzikert		5
2	Turkish (tr) Malazgirt Meydan Muharebesi		4
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Manzikert		3
4	Arabic (ar) معركة ملاذكرد		2
5	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Mantziciert		1
6	French (fr) Bataille de Manzikert		1
7	Croatian (hr) Bitka kod Manzikerta		1
8	Japanese (ja) マラズギルトの戦い		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Malazgird döyüşü		0
10	Belarusian (be) Бітва пад Манцыкертам (1071)		0

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

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