Scramble for Africa

1880s–1900s Western European colonisation of Africa
Thing partition Q179848
Scramble for Africa
Edward Linley Sambourne · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Scramble for Africa

Summary

Scramble for Africa is a partition[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of partition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,686 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Scramble for Africa's image is recorded as Punch Rhodes Colossus.png[3].
  • Scramble for Africa's instance of is recorded as partition[4].
  • Scramble for Africa's locator map image is recorded as Map of Africa in 1880.jpg[5].
  • Scramble for Africa's subclass of is recorded as colonisation of Africa[6].
  • Scramble for Africa's Commons category is recorded as Scramble for Africa[7].
  • Scramble for Africa's start time is recorded as +1885-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Scramble for Africa's end time is recorded as +1914-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Scramble for Africa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01q2bw[10].
  • Scramble for Africa's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scramble for Africa[11].
  • Scramble for Africa's facet of is recorded as colonization[12].
  • Scramble for Africa's facet of is recorded as colonisation of Africa[13].
  • Scramble for Africa's topic has template is recorded as Template:Campaignbox Scramble for Africa[14].
  • Scramble for Africa's contributing factor of is recorded as World War I[15].
  • Scramble for Africa's BBC Things ID is recorded as 6d36377b-8531-4947-b4f9-59857ea23df6[16].
  • Scramble for Africa's different from is recorded as Western imperialism in Asia[17].
  • Scramble for Africa's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scramble-for-Africa[18].
  • Scramble for Africa's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • Scramble for Africa's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294936521[20].
  • Scramble for Africa's Getty Iconography Authority ID is recorded as 901001128[21].
  • Scramble for Africa's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776395653[22].
  • Scramble for Africa's Krugosvet article is recorded as istoriya/KOLONIALNI_RAZDEL_MIRA.html[23].
  • Scramble for Africa's Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 51695[24].
  • Scramble for Africa's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Scramble_for_Africa[25].
  • Scramble for Africa's WikiKids ID is recorded as Wedloop_om_Afrika[26].
  • Scramble for Africa's Vikidia article ID is recorded as es:Reparto_de_África[27].

Why It Matters

Scramble for Africa ranks in the top 8% of partition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,686 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  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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