casus belli

('occasion for war') is an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
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casus belli

Summary

casus belli is a Latin phrase[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of latin_phrase entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,032 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • casus belli's instance of is recorded as Latin phrase[3].
  • casus belli's subclass of is recorded as international incident[4].
  • casus belli's subclass of is recorded as cause[5].
  • casus belli's said to be the same as is recorded as crime of aggression[6].
  • casus belli's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018dr6[7].
  • casus belli's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Causes of war[8].
  • casus belli's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[9].
  • casus belli's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[10].
  • casus belli's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • casus belli's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[12].
  • casus belli's different from is recorded as Q123328891[13].
  • casus belli's NE.se ID is recorded as casus-belli[14].
  • casus belli's Quora topic ID is recorded as Casus-Belli-1[15].
  • casus belli's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Concept", "CasusBelli::693z9"][16].
  • casus belli's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].
  • casus belli's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 11007[18].
  • casus belli's Lex ID is recorded as casus_belli[19].
  • casus belli's Proleksis enciklopedija ID is recorded as 14709[20].
  • casus belli's KBpedia ID is recorded as CauseOfWar[21].
  • casus belli's WikiKids ID is recorded as Casus_belli[22].

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Designation and Status

casus belli's instance of is recorded as Latin phrase[3].

Why It Matters

casus belli ranks in the top 5% of latin_phrase entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,032 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . icc-cpi.int. icc-cpi.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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