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Pour le Mérite

Kingdom of Prussia's highest order of merit
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Pour le Mérite

Summary

Pour le Mérite is a courage award[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of courage_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,053 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pour le Mérite is in the country of Prussia[3].
  • Pour le Mérite's image is recorded as Kruis van de Orde Pour le Mérite 1914.gif[4].
  • Pour le Mérite's instance of is recorded as courage award[5].
  • Pour le Mérite's instance of is recorded as order of merit[6].
  • Pour le Mérite's instance of is recorded as order of chivalry[7].
  • Pour le Mérite's instance of is recorded as medal of merit[8].
  • Pour le Mérite's instance of is recorded as civil decoration[9].
  • Pour le Mérite's coat of arms image is recorded as Orden Pour le Merite Vredesklasse.jpg[10].
  • Pour le Mérite's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 155420044[11].
  • Pour le Mérite's GND ID is recorded as 4133445-0[12].
  • Pour le Mérite's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85095349[13].
  • Pour le Mérite's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12349276r[14].
  • Pour le Mérite's IdRef ID is recorded as 032468326[15].
  • Pour le Mérite's Commons category is recorded as Pour le Mérite[16].
  • Pour le Mérite's has part is recorded as Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order[17].
  • +1740-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pour le Mérite[18].
  • Pour le Mérite was dissolved in +1933-00-00T00:00:00Z[19].
  • Pour le Mérite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qy58[20].
  • Pour le Mérite's location of formation is recorded as Berlin[21].
  • Pour le Mérite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pour le Mérite[22].
  • Pour le Mérite's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as CR5327[23].
  • Pour le Mérite's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[24].
  • Pour le Mérite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • Pour le Mérite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • Pour le Mérite's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

Body

Founding

+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pour le Mérite[18]. Its location of formation is recorded as Berlin[21].

Dissolution

Pour le Mérite was dissolved in +1933-00-00T00:00:00Z[19].

Why It Matters

Pour le Mérite ranks in the top 5% of courage_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,053 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . 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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