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Blackness Castle

fortress, near the village of Blackness, Scotland
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Blackness Castle

Summary

Blackness Castle is a castle[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of castle entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Blackness Castle is located in Bo'ness[3].
  • Blackness Castle is located in Falkirk[4].
  • Blackness Castle is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Blackness Castle's image is recorded as Blackness Castle, Blackness, Scotland.jpg[6].
  • Blackness Castle's instance of is recorded as castle[7].
  • Blackness Castle's commissioned by is recorded as George Crichton, 1st Earl of Caithness[8].
  • Blackness Castle's owned by is recorded as Historic Environment Scotland[9].
  • Blackness Castle's operator is recorded as Historic Environment Scotland[10].
  • Blackness Castle's made from material is recorded as stone[11].
  • Blackness Castle's Commons category is recorded as Blackness Castle[12].
  • Blackness Castle's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1458800[13].
  • Blackness Castle's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 56.00611111111111, 'lon': -3.516111111111111}[14].
  • Blackness Castle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03vbf_[15].
  • Blackness Castle's Historic Environment Scotland ID is recorded as SM90036[16].
  • Blackness Castle's Canmore ID is recorded as 49516[17].
  • Blackness Castle's official website is recorded as https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/blackness-castle/[18].
  • Blackness Castle's described by source is recorded as CastlesFortsBattles[19].
  • Blackness Castle's heritage designation is recorded as scheduled monument[20].
  • Blackness Castle's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Blackness Castle'}[21].
  • Blackness Castle's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03867779n[22].
  • Blackness Castle's TripAdvisor ID is recorded as 2365244[23].
  • Blackness Castle's Google Maps Customer ID is recorded as 4049031844192753704[24].
  • Blackness Castle's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as the-black-castle[25].
  • Blackness Castle's associated electoral district is recorded as Bathgate and Linlithgow[26].
  • Blackness Castle's historic county is recorded as West Lothian[27].

Why It Matters

Blackness Castle ranks in the top 4% of castle entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

CastlesFortsBattles United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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