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Dur-Sharrukin

Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II
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Dur-Sharrukin

Summary

Dur-Sharrukin is a human settlement[1]. Dur-Sharrukin ranks in the top 0.66% of human_settlement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (119 views/month, #237 of 35,923).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dur-Sharrukin is located in Nineveh Governorate[3].
  • Dur-Sharrukin is in the country of Iraq[4].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's image is recorded as Lammasu.jpg[5].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's instance of is recorded as human settlement[6].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[7].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's GND ID is recorded as 4351671-3[8].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Commons category is recorded as Dur-Sharrukin[9].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:00[10].
  • -0706-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Dur-Sharrukin[11].
  • Dur-Sharrukin was dissolved in -0605-01-01T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 36.50953, 'lon': 43.22931}[13].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02sv2b[14].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge781775[15].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dur-Sharrukin[16].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Commons gallery is recorded as Dur Sharrukin[17].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's capital of is recorded as Assyrian Empire[19].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Dur-Sharrukin[20].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's vici.org ID is recorded as 11015[21].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Pleiades ID is recorded as 874458[22].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Trismegistos Geo ID is recorded as 48874[23].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's time period is recorded as ancient Near East[24].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's culture is recorded as Assyrians[25].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1970901[26].
  • Dur-Sharrukin's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as khorsabad[27].

Body

Geography

Dur-Sharrukin is in the country of Iraq[4]. Dur-Sharrukin is located in Nineveh Governorate[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include human settlement[6] and archaeological site[7].

History and Context

-0706-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Dur-Sharrukin[11].

Why It Matters

Dur-Sharrukin ranks in the top 0.66% of human_settlement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (119 views/month, #237 of 35,923).[2] Dur-Sharrukin has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Dur-Sharrukin is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Iraq

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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