Anqa

Large female bird from Arabian mythology, resembling a heron or phoenix, described as having a human face, a long, white, thick neck and four pairs of wings.
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Anqa

Summary

Anqa is a legendary bird[1]. Anqa draws 167 Wikipedia views per month (legendary_bird category, ranking #15 of 28).[2]

Key Facts

  • Anqa's image is recorded as القزويني.jpg[3].
  • Anqa's image is recorded as Book of Wonders folio 42b.jpg[4].
  • Anqa is recorded as female organism[5].
  • Anqa's instance of is recorded as legendary bird[6].
  • Anqa's subclass of is recorded as mythical creature[7].
  • Anqa's subclass of is recorded as legendary bird[8].
  • Anqa's subclass of is recorded as demon[9].
  • Anqa's part of is recorded as Arabian mythology[10].
  • Anqa's part of is recorded as Turkic mythology[11].
  • Anqa's Commons category is recorded as Anqa[12].
  • Anqa's said to be the same as is recorded as Simurgh[13].
  • Anqa's said to be the same as is recorded as phoenix[14].
  • Anqa's said to be the same as is recorded as griffin[15].
  • Anqa's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/anqa[16].
  • Anqa's different from is recorded as phoenix[17].
  • Anqa's different from is recorded as Al-Anqa[18].
  • Anqa's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1hc0gkknf[19].
  • Anqa's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bc62v0r0[20].
  • Anqa's TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID is recorded as anka[21].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Anqa include Alanqa[22], a monotypic fossil taxon[23].

Why It Matters

Anqa draws 167 Wikipedia views per month (legendary_bird category, ranking #15 of 28).[2] Anqa has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Anqa is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for Anqa include Alanqa[22], a monotypic fossil taxon[23].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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