Old Town

name popularly given to the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh
Place neighborhood Q591133
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Old Town

Summary

Old Town is a neighborhood[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of neighborhood entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Old Town is located in City of Edinburgh[3].
  • Old Town is located in Edinburgh[4].
  • Old Town is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Old Town's image is recorded as Edinburgh Cockburn St dsc06789.jpg[6].
  • Old Town's image is recorded as 00 103 0325 Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, Schottland.jpg[7].
  • Old Town's instance of is recorded as neighborhood[8].
  • Old Town's instance of is recorded as old town[9].
  • Old Town's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 148089297[10].
  • Old Town's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2003022547[11].
  • Old Town's location is recorded as Edinburgh[12].
  • Old Town's part of is recorded as Old and New Towns of Edinburgh[13].
  • Old Town's Commons category is recorded as Old Town of Edinburgh[14].
  • Old Town's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 8341994[15].
  • Old Town's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 55.947572222222, 'lon': -3.1916305555556}[16].
  • Old Town's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dz7sf[17].
  • Old Town's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Old Town, Edinburgh[18].
  • Old Town's page banner is recorded as Edinburgh castle banner.jpg[19].
  • Old Town's GeoNames ID is recorded as 7644905[20].
  • Old Town's BBC Things ID is recorded as 881b0788-8381-4507-8f96-35841d870542[21].
  • Old Town's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Old Town'}[22].
  • Old Town's TOID is recorded as 4000000074542469[23].
  • Old Town's Who's on First ID is recorded as 85792713[24].
  • Old Town's Gazetteer for Scotland place ID is recorded as features/featurefirst994[25].
  • Old Town's historic county is recorded as Midlothian[26].
  • Old Town's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007484758505171[27].

Body

Geography

Old Town is in the country of United Kingdom[5]. Located in include City of Edinburgh[3], a council area[28], in United Kingdom[29] and Edinburgh[4], a civil parish[30], in United Kingdom[31]. Its part of is recorded as Old and New Towns of Edinburgh[13].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include neighborhood[8] and old town[9].

Why It Matters

Old Town ranks in the top 3% of neighborhood entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . BBC Things. 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.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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