secession

formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity
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secession

Summary

secession ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,918 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • secession is a type of occurrence[2].
  • secession is a type of territorial change[3].
  • secession is a type of withdrawal[4].
  • secession's Commons category is recorded as Secession (international law)[5].
  • secession is the opposite of incorporation[6].
  • secession's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Secession[7].
  • secession's facet of is recorded as international law[8].
  • secession's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • secession's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • secession's has effect is recorded as succession of states[11].
  • secession's different from is recorded as dismemberment[12].
  • secession's different from is recorded as succession of states[13].
  • secession's different from is recorded as Secession[14].
  • secession's different from is recorded as separateness[15].
  • secession's P14901 is recorded as secession[16].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include occurrence[2], territorial change[3], and withdrawal[4]. secession is the opposite of incorporation[6].

Influence

Things named for secession include Berlin Secession[17], an art group[18], in Germany[19], founded in 1898[20].

Why It Matters

secession ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,918 views/month).[1] secession has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] secession is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for secession include Berlin Secession[17], an art group[18], in Germany[19], founded in 1898[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . 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. 15d ago · Tymewalk · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14901 → secession
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55023|batch #55023]]: Encyclopedia of Alabama update - add values for P14901 based on existing values of P6010"
  2. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → secession
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: secession, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289962573|secession (#289962573)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  3. 8w ago · Dronebogus · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Westraliasecession3.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Westraliasecession3.jpg"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → succession of states
    Opposite of → incorporation
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007529431505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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