fortress

Summary

fortress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (618 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• fortress is a type of fort^[2].
• fortress is a type of military installation^[3].
• fortress's Commons category is recorded as Fortresses^[4].
• fortress's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fortresses^[5].
• fortress's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as castle_type=fortress^[6].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[7].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia^[8].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[9].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[10].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[12].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[15].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1^[16].
• fortress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• fortress's topic has template is recorded as Q17311578^[18].
• fortress's different from is recorded as stronghold^[19].
• fortress's different from is recorded as sea fort^[20].
• fortress's different from is recorded as Fortezza^[21].
• fortress's different from is recorded as Q27579942^[22].
• fortress's different from is recorded as fortification^[23].
• fortress's position held by head of the organization is recorded as Q127509920^[24].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include fort^[2] and military installation^[3].

Influence

Things named for fortress include rook^[25]; Dwarf Fortress^[26], a video game^[27]; and Berd^[28], a city or town in Armenia^[29], in Armenia^[30], founded in 0898^[31].

Why It Matters

fortress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (618 views/month).^[1] fortress has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] fortress is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for fortress include rook^[25]; Dwarf Fortress^[26], a video game^[27]; and Berd^[28], a city or town in Armenia^[29], in Armenia^[30], founded in 0898^[31].