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gendarmerie

military force charged with police duties among civilian populations
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Summary

gendarmerie ranks in the top 0.6% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,915 views/month, #466 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: military police[2], military branch[3]
  • Has use: military police[4]
  • Commons category: Gendarmerie[5]
  • Opposite of: Peelian Principles[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gendarmerie[7]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Has characteristic: military unit[13]
  • Different from: Žandarmerija[14], Gendarmerie (disambiguation)[15]
  • Has list: list of gendarmerie organisations[16]

Why It Matters

gendarmerie has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] gendarmerie is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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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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  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006999-cetnictvo
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006999-cetnictvo, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Has use → military police
    Topic's main category → Category:Gendarmerie
    Has list → list of gendarmerie organisations
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 19726, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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