Fall of Constantinople

Quality:

Fall of Constantinople - 1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire. This event is the 105^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 200^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "Fall of Constantinople" in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 224 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4140^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 200^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4117^th most popular in all topics.

The 2506^th most popular in AI.

The 105^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7121^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4044^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Fall of Constantinople" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Fall of Constantinople", its content was written by 1191 registered users of English Wikipedia (4140^th place) and edited by 4704 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2506^th place).

Fall of Constantinople is on the 200^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 105^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2993 times in English Wikipedia and cited 16033 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #528 in August 2022
• Global: #510 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1397 in January 2020
• Global: #841 in January 2020

There are 50 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	Turkish (tr) İstanbul'un Fethi		100
2	Russian (ru) Падение Константинополя (1453)		100
3	Serbian (sr) Пад Цариграда (1453)		100
4	Slovenian (sl) Padec Konstantinopla		100
5	Italian (it) Assedio di Costantinopoli (1453)		98.3811
6	Arabic (ar) فتح القسطنطينية		97.1386
7	English (en) Fall of Constantinople		96.3724
8	French (fr) Chute de Constantinople		95.3154
9	Tamil (ta) கான்சுடன்டினோப்பிளின் வீழ்ச்சி		94.2732
10	German (de) Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1453)		89.9544

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fall of Constantinople		13 574 489
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul'un Fethi		5 655 045
3	Spanish (es) Caída de Constantinopla		5 572 550
4	Arabic (ar) فتح القسطنطينية		2 944 588
5	Russian (ru) Падение Константинополя (1453)		2 402 221
6	German (de) Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1453)		2 086 113
7	French (fr) Chute de Constantinople		2 049 097
8	Italian (it) Assedio di Costantinopoli (1453)		1 157 200
9	Portuguese (pt) Queda de Constantinopla		1 151 330
10	Indonesian (id) Kejatuhan Konstantinopel		1 118 783

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) Fall of Constantinople		83 901
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul'un Fethi		20 569
3	Spanish (es) Caída de Constantinopla		13 834
4	Russian (ru) Падение Константинополя (1453)		12 478
5	French (fr) Chute de Constantinople		8 666
6	Arabic (ar) فتح القسطنطينية		8 172
7	German (de) Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1453)		8 045
8	Italian (it) Assedio di Costantinopoli (1453)		5 166
9	Greek (el) Άλωση της Κωνσταντινούπολης (1453)		4 902
10	Japanese (ja) コンスタンティノープルの陥落		4 587

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fall of Constantinople		1 191
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul'un Fethi		391
3	German (de) Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1453)		359
4	French (fr) Chute de Constantinople		296
5	Russian (ru) Падение Константинополя (1453)		268
6	Spanish (es) Caída de Constantinopla		231
7	Italian (it) Assedio di Costantinopoli (1453)		227
8	Arabic (ar) فتح القسطنطينية		136
9	Greek (el) Άλωση της Κωνσταντινούπολης (1453)		101
10	Dutch (nl) Beleg en val van Constantinopel (1453)		99

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) Fall of Constantinople		7
2	German (de) Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1453)		4
3	Russian (ru) Падение Константинополя (1453)		2
4	Spanish (es) Caída de Constantinopla		1
5	Basque (eu) Konstantinoplaren erorialdia		1
6	Galician (gl) Caída de Constantinopla		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Падіння Константинополя (1453)		1
8	Arabic (ar) فتح القسطنطينية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Konstantinopolun fəthi		0
10	Belarusian (be) Аблога Канстанцінопаля (1453)		0

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

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