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blockade

effort to cut off supplies from a particular area by force
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blockade

Summary

blockade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,048 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • blockade is a type of military operation[2].
  • blockade's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Blockades[3].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[4].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[6].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[8].
  • blockade's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[9].
  • blockade's different from is recorded as siege[10].
  • blockade's different from is recorded as lockout[11].
  • blockade's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12].

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Definition and Type

blockade is a type of military operation[2].

Why It Matters

blockade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,048 views/month).[1] blockade has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] blockade is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → siege, lockout
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → military operation
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3852, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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