coup d'état

act in which a segment of the military or government elites uses force to illegally and overtly overthrow an incumbent government in an attempt to seize state power
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coup d'état
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coup d'état

Summary

coup d'état ranks in the top 0.16% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,204 views/month, #125 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • coup d'état is a type of regime change[2].
  • coup d'état is a type of conflict[3].
  • coup d'état's Commons category is recorded as Coups d'état[4].
  • coup d'état's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Coups d'état[5].
  • coup d'état's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • coup d'état's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • coup d'état's topic has template is recorded as Template:Coup d'état[8].
  • coup d'état's different from is recorded as Golpe de Estado[9].
  • coup d'état's different from is recorded as military coup[10].
  • coup d'état's different from is recorded as attempted coup d'état[11].
  • coup d'état's uses is recorded as force[12].
  • coup d'état's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include regime change[2] and conflict[3].

Influence

Things named for coup d'état include Coup Belt[14], a geopolitical group[15], in Burkina Faso[16].

Why It Matters

coup d'état ranks in the top 0.16% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,204 views/month, #125 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 94 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Entities named for it include Coup Belt[14], a geopolitical group[15], in Burkina Faso[16].

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  1. [14] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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