castle

type of fortified structure built in Europe, Asia and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility
Class type of: fortification Q23413

Facts

14 properties
🏷️ Also known as
en castle en Middle Ages castle en medieval castle ar قلعة cs hrad da borg de Mittelalterburg de mittelalterliche Burg de Burg el κάστρο es castillo es castillos fa دژ fi linna fr château fort fr château-fort he טירה hi गढ़ hu vár id puri
🔖 Identifiers · 64
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85020702
GND ID
4009104-1
Arabic Ontology concept ID
293486
ArchINFORM keyword ID
1875
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300006891
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/2911
BBC News topic ID
c48qxmdyl2nt
BDCYL authority ID
628
BNCF Thesaurus ID
17448
BabelNet ID
00016570n
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11931695w
Dewey Decimal Classification
728.81
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/castle-architecture
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
chateau-fort
Equivalent class
dbpedia.org
FactGrid item ID
Richard Mason
Foto Atlas taxonomy ID
965
Freebase ID
/m/0d5gx
Gaming Wiki Network article ID
medievil:Castle
GeoNames feature code
S.CSTL
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
castell-10
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0089199
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
3418
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1987290
Grove Art Online ID
T014775
HDS ID
024640
Harper's tag
castles
IMDb keyword
castle
Iconclass notation
41A12
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID
C\A\Castles
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
castles
Joconde discovery ID
T115-4107
KBpedia ID
Castle
Klexikon article ID
Burg
Lemmy community ID
castles@lemm.ee
Lex ID
borg
Museum-digital tag ID
791
NDL Authority ID
00571227
NL CR AUT ID
ge571903, ph120854
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
term/491CE36A-40CD-4293-B33B-C3A3D1747ABE
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007284718005171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX526049
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4000154
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrt8AQJzm2L6E
PSH ID
164
RKD thesaurus ID
62983
Subreddit
castles
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Castles and châteaus
Topic's main category
Category:Castles
Treccani ID
castello
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
castello-e-incastellamento
Vikidia article ID
es:Castillo, fr:Château_fort
Visual Novel Database ID
g311
Wolfram Language entity type
Castle
YSO ID
6790
Zhihu topic ID
19717435
Ávvir topic ID
sloahtta

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← Set in environment 201
← Category contains 169
← Is a list of 48
Subtypes 28
← Has use 13
← Depicts 11
Named after 9
Has these parts 5
← Field of work 5
Described by source 3
Subject has role 3
← Main subject 3
Different from 2
Has part(s) 2
Partially coincident with 2
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FactGrid item ID 1
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Studied by 1
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Summary

castle is a type of building[1]. castle is a type of fortification[2].

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Influence

Things named for castle include Kingdom of Castile[26], a historical country[27], in Kingdom of Castile[28], founded in 1065[29]; Daugavpils[30], a state city of Latvia[31], in Latvia[32], founded in 1275[33]; Castile[34], a historical region[35], in Spain[36]; Ventspils[37], a state city of Latvia[38], in Latvia[39], founded in 1290[40]; Castle-class corvette[41], a ship class[42], founded in 1943[43]; Jēkabpils[44], a state city of Latvia[45], in Latvia[46], founded in 1670[47]; Ki Castle[48], a kōgoishi[49], in Japan[50], founded in 0700[51]; and Castle-class patrol vessel[52], a watercraft class[53], founded in 1982[54].

Why It Matters

Entities named for castle include Kingdom of Castile[26], a historical country[27], in Kingdom of Castile[28], founded in 1065[29]; Daugavpils[30], a state city of Latvia[31], in Latvia[32], founded in 1275[33]; Castile[34], a historical region[35], in Spain[36]; Ventspils[37], a state city of Latvia[38], in Latvia[39], founded in 1290[40]; Castle-class corvette[41], a ship class[42], founded in 1943[43]; and Jēkabpils[44], a state city of Latvia[45], in Latvia[46], founded in 1670[47].

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arc', 'ast', 'avk', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bar', 'bat_sm
    Sitelink count → 130
    "/* wbsetlabel-add:1|avk */ Ralmalamone, import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 29d ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arc', 'ast', 'avk', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bar', 'bat_sm
    P14692 → Vougeot
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||sq, mzn, br, fa, inh, nrm, nan */ #pwb Copy label"
  3. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → castles
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: castles, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289922881|castles (#289922881)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 20w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0405214-Hrad-Radec-Brdy-cesko-vrch, h0001406-hrady
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0001406-hrady, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
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