Colossae

ancient city of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey
Place ancient_city Q1001370
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Colossae

Summary

Colossae is an ancient city[1]. Colossae ranks in the top 5% of ancient_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Colossae is located in Denizli Province[3].
  • Colossae is in the country of Turkey[4].
  • Colossae's image is recorded as TR Colossae site asv2020-02 img08.jpg[5].
  • Colossae's instance of is recorded as ancient city[6].
  • Colossae's GND ID is recorded as 4391909-1[7].
  • Colossae's location is recorded as Phrygia[8].
  • Colossae's Commons category is recorded as Colossae[9].
  • Colossae's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.83583333333333, 'lon': 29.1075}[10].
  • Colossae's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_1f[11].
  • Colossae's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Aegean Region[12].
  • Colossae's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0018879[13].
  • Colossae's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[14].
  • Colossae's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • Colossae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • Colossae's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[17].
  • Colossae's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • Colossae's Pleiades ID is recorded as 638811[19].
  • Colossae's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 6001508[20].
  • Colossae's Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID is recorded as 21472[21].
  • Colossae's Catholic Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 04131a[22].
  • Colossae's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as colosse[23].
  • Colossae's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Kolossai[24].
  • Colossae's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i82635[25].
  • Colossae's ToposText place ID is recorded as 378293UKol[26].
  • Colossae's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 08719369-n[27].

Body

Geography

Colossae is in the country of Turkey[4]. Colossae is located in Denizli Province[3].

Designation and Status

Colossae's instance of is recorded as ancient city[6].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Colossae include Kolossi[28], a community of Cyprus Republic[29], in Cyprus[30].

Why It Matters

Colossae ranks in the top 5% of ancient_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month).[2] Colossae has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Colossae is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for Colossae include Kolossi[28], a community of Cyprus Republic[29], in Cyprus[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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