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military construction designed for defensive warfare
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fort

Summary

fort ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fort is a type of fortification[2].
  • fort's Commons category is recorded as Forts[3].
  • fort's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Forts[4].
  • fort's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as historic=fort[5].
  • fort's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[6].
  • fort's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • fort's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • fort's different from is recorded as Fort[9].
  • fort's different from is recorded as coastal defence and fortification[10].
  • fort's exact match is recorded as https://data.niod.nl/WO2_Thesaurus/6141[11].

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Definition and Type

fort is a type of fortification[2].

Why It Matters

fort ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month).[1] fort has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] fort is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Fort, coastal defence and fortification
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → fortification
    Described by source → Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20695, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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