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Greek fire

incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire developed c. 672
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Greek fire

Summary

Greek fire is a weapon type[1]. It ranks in the top 0.43% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,021 views/month, #3 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • Greek fire is credited with the discovery of Callinicus of Heliopolis[3].
  • Greek fire's image is recorded as Greekfire-madridskylitzes1.jpg[4].
  • Greek fire's instance of is recorded as weapon type[5].
  • Greek fire's GND ID is recorded as 4232012-4[6].
  • Greek fire's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85057149[7].
  • Greek fire's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11983331b[8].
  • Greek fire's IdRef ID is recorded as 027888185[9].
  • Greek fire's subclass of is recorded as incendiary weapon[10].
  • Greek fire's Commons category is recorded as Greek fire[11].
  • Greek fire's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +0672-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Greek fire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03c7q[13].
  • Greek fire's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph349438[14].
  • Greek fire's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300226956[15].
  • Greek fire's location of creation is recorded as Constantinople[16].
  • Greek fire's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0232560[17].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • Greek fire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[24].
  • Greek fire's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Greek-fire[25].
  • Greek fire's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2378804[26].
  • Greek fire's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as greek-fire[27].

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Works and Contributions

Greek fire is credited with the discovery of Callinicus of Heliopolis[3].

Why It Matters

Greek fire ranks in the top 0.43% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,021 views/month, #3 of 694).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . 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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