Melungeon

mixed-race group from the South Central Appalachian region of the United States
Intangible ethnic_group Q2668201
Melungeon
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Melungeon

Summary

Melungeon is an ethnic group[1]. Melungeon ranks in the top 0.27% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,931 views/month, #12 of 4,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Melungeon's image is recorded as Goins.jpg[3].
  • Melungeon's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[4].
  • Melungeon's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85083454[5].
  • Melungeon's Commons category is recorded as Melungeons[6].
  • Melungeon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hz_5[7].
  • Melungeon's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[8].
  • Melungeon's Tennessee Encyclopedia ID is recorded as melungeons[9].
  • Melungeon's FactGrid item ID is recorded as minimally conscious state[10].
  • Melungeon's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007562917205171[11].
  • Melungeon's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/e238b758-8c4e-416d-aca3-4413c2434dfc[12].

Why It Matters

Melungeon ranks in the top 0.27% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,931 views/month, #12 of 4,529).[2] Melungeon has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Melungeon is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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