praetors

official of the Roman Republic
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praetors

Summary

praetors is an elective office[1]. praetors draws 60 Wikipedia views per month (elective_office category, ranking #10 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • praetors is in the country of Ancient Rome[3].
  • praetors's instance of is recorded as elective office[4].
  • praetors is a type of Roman magistrate[5].
  • praetors is part of cursus honorum[6].
  • praetors's Commons category is recorded as Praetors[7].
  • praetors's field of this occupation is recorded as praetorship[8].
  • praetors comprises praetor urbanus[9].
  • praetors comprises praetor peregrinus[10].
  • praetors comprises praetor of the aerarium[11].
  • 366 BC marks the founding of praetors[12].
  • praetors was dissolved in 500[13].
  • praetors's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Roman praetors[14].
  • praetors's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as Ancient Rome[15].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[16].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[17].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[23].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[24].
  • praetors's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[25].
  • praetors's has characteristic is recorded as imperium[26].
  • praetors's has characteristic is recorded as collegiality[27].

Body

Definition and Type

praetors's instance of is recorded as elective office[4]. praetors is a type of Roman magistrate[5].

Origins

366 BC marks the founding of praetors[12].

Use and Application

Components include praetor urbanus[9], a position[28], in Ancient Rome[29]; praetor peregrinus[10], a position[30], in Ancient Rome[31]; and praetor of the aerarium[11]. praetors is part of cursus honorum[6].

Why It Matters

praetors draws 60 Wikipedia views per month (elective_office category, ranking #10 of 59).[2] praetors has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] praetors is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  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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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. 2d ago · THEbotIT bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary +7
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q1138524]], Add reference to a lexicon article."
  2. 7d ago · Allforrous · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Praetors
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'diq', 'el', 'en',
    Claims rich → —
    Name → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P373]]: Praetors"
  3. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 5305
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 5305, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287372|praetor (#107287372)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Prerequisite → quaestor
    Organization directed by the office or position → praetorship
    Instance of → elective office
    Country → Ancient Rome
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536381705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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