Praetorian Guard

Imperial Roman unit who guarded the emperors
Organization military_unit Q181733
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Praetorian Guard

Summary

Praetorian Guard is a military unit[1]. It ranks in the top 0.12% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,828 views/month, #6 of 4,978).[2]

Key Facts

  • Praetorian Guard is in the country of Ancient Rome[3].
  • Praetorian Guard is in the country of Roman Republic[4].
  • Praetorian Guard's image is recorded as MBALyon2018 - Expo Claude - Relief Pretoriens - cropped foreground.jpg[5].
  • Praetorian Guard's instance of is recorded as military unit[6].
  • Praetorian Guard's instance of is recorded as bodyguard[7].
  • Praetorian Guard's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 188516801[8].
  • Praetorian Guard's GND ID is recorded as 4076781-4[9].
  • Praetorian Guard's subclass of is recorded as royal guard[10].
  • Praetorian Guard's subclass of is recorded as imperial guard[11].
  • Praetorian Guard's Commons category is recorded as Praetorian Guard[12].
  • Praetorian Guard's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 37308[13].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors IIII Praetoria[14].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors III Praetoria[15].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors II Praetoria[16].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors VIII praetoria[17].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors VIIII praetoria[18].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors X praetoria[19].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors VI praetoria[20].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors V praetoria[21].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors I praetoria[22].
  • Praetorian Guard's has part is recorded as Cohors VII praetoria[23].
  • Praetorian Guard's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01c1fm[24].
  • Praetorian Guard's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph311307[25].
  • Praetorian Guard's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Praetorian Guard[26].
  • Praetorian Guard's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[27].

Why It Matters

Praetorian Guard ranks in the top 0.12% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,828 views/month, #6 of 4,978).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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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