Home › Entities › general › broch

broch

type of Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure
Thing general Q82137
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

broch

Summary

broch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • broch's image is recorded as Broch Dun Carloway Lewis Schottland.jpg[2].
  • broch's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 277857460[3].
  • broch's subclass of is recorded as tower[4].
  • broch's Commons category is recorded as Brochs[5].
  • broch's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01h0y[6].
  • broch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Brochs[7].
  • broch's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300004863[8].
  • broch's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • broch's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/broch[10].
  • broch's different from is recorded as Broch[11].
  • broch's time period is recorded as Iron Age[12].
  • broch's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as broch[13].
  • broch's Canmore monument-type ID is recorded as 409[14].

Why It Matters

broch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1] broch has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] broch is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). broch. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/broch
MLA “broch.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/broch.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_broch_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{broch}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/broch}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): broch — https://4ort.xyz/entity/broch (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/broch · Last refreshed: