Home › Entities › general › historic district

historic district

section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons
Thing general Q15243209
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

historic district

Summary

historic district ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (239 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • historic district is a type of human-geographic territorial entity[2].
  • historic district is a type of district[3].
  • historic district's Commons category is recorded as Historic districts[4].
  • historic district's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Historic districts[5].
  • historic district's facet of is recorded as heritage site[6].
  • historic district's facet of is recorded as quarter[7].
  • historic district's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as historic=district[8].
  • historic district's different from is recorded as old town[9].
  • historic district's different from is recorded as historic center[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include human-geographic territorial entity[2] and district[3].

Why It Matters

historic district ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (239 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Cusco

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). historic district. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/historic-district
MLA “historic district.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/historic-district.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_historic-district_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{historic district}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/historic-district}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): historic district — https://4ort.xyz/entity/historic-district (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/historic-district · Last refreshed:

Edit History

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. 1d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q17410
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.