meddah

Turkish storyteller
Intangible profession Q478940
meddah
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Summary

meddah is a profession[1]. meddah draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (profession category, ranking #384 of 1,605).[2]

Key Facts

  • meddah is in the country of Turkey[3].
  • meddah's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • meddah's instance of is recorded as occupation[5].
  • meddah is a type of storyteller[6].
  • meddah is a type of fairy tale teller[7].
  • meddah's said to be the same as is recorded as fairy tale teller[8].
  • meddah's said to be the same as is recorded as storyteller[9].
  • meddah's country of origin is recorded as Turkey[10].
  • meddah's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00037[11].
  • meddah's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00037[12].
  • meddah's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00037[13].
  • meddah's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • meddah's different from is recorded as fairy tale teller[15].
  • meddah's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[16].
  • meddah's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity[17].
  • meddah's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include profession[4] and occupation[5]. Recorded subclass of include storyteller[6] and fairy tale teller[7].

Why It Matters

meddah draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (profession category, ranking #384 of 1,605).[2] meddah has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] meddah is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Kolja21 · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Intangible cultural heritage status → Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
    Different from → fairy tale teller
    Country of origin → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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