coat of arms
heraldic design on a shield, surcoat or tabard
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Summary
coat of arms ranks in the top 0.47% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,872 views/month, #366 of 77,819).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: flag or coat of arms[2], symbol[3], architectural element[4]
- Part of: achievement[5]
- Commons category: Coats of arms[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Coats of arms[7]
- Facet of: heraldry[8]
- OpenStreetMap tag: stone_type=coat_of_arms[9]
- Depicted by: Two-Handled Jar with Birds and a Coat of Arms[10]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox emblem[18], Template:Coat of arms[19]
- Main Wikidata property: P237[20], P94[21], P9344[22]
- Different from: Jata[23]
- Studied by: heraldry[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]
- P14369: 68762[26]
Why It Matters
coat of arms has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]