fortress

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Summary

fortress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,929 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: fort[2], military installation[3]
  • Commons category: Fortresses[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fortresses[5]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: castle_type=fortress[6]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[7], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14]
  • Topic has template: Шаблон:Крепость[15]
  • Different from: stronghold[16], sea fort[17], Fortezza[18], Крепость (село)[19], fortification[20]
  • Position held by head of the organization: Q127509920[21]

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Influence

Things named for fortress include Dwarf Fortress[22], a video game[23]; rook[24]; and Berd[25], a city or town in Armenia[26], in Armenia[27], founded in 0898[28].

Why It Matters

fortress has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] fortress is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for fortress include Dwarf Fortress[22], a video game[23]; rook[24]; and Berd[25], a city or town in Armenia[26], in Armenia[27], founded in 0898[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6883
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 12w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 6246
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 6246, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167478525|FORTRESS (#167478525)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] "
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002459-pevnosti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002459-pevnosti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 14633, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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