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amphitheatre

open-air venue used for entertainment and performances
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Summary

amphitheatre ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,895 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: event venue[2], sylvan theater[3]
  • Commons category: Amphitheatres[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Amphitheaters[5]
  • Commons gallery: Amphitheatre[6]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: theatre:type=amphi[7]
  • Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa[8], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopedic Lexicon[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], The New Student's Reference Work[16], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18]
  • Native label: amphithéâtre[19]

Why It Matters

amphitheatre has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] amphitheatre is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q16232
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0212264-amfiteatry
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0212264-amfiteatry, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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