Selous Scouts

Rhodesian Special Forces Unit during the Bush War
Organization special_forces Q1395013
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Selous Scouts

Summary

Selous Scouts is a special forces[1]. It draws 699 Wikipedia views per month (special_forces category, ranking #7 of 49).[2]

Key Facts

  • Selous Scouts is in the country of Zimbabwe[3].
  • Selous Scouts's image is recorded as Selous-Scouts-cap-badge.png[4].
  • Selous Scouts's instance of is recorded as special forces[5].
  • Frederick Selous is named after Selous Scouts[6].
  • Selous Scouts's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 123184142[7].
  • Selous Scouts's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82162846[8].
  • Selous Scouts's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12220705v[9].
  • Selous Scouts's IdRef ID is recorded as 030879426[10].
  • +1973-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Selous Scouts[11].
  • Selous Scouts was dissolved in +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Selous Scouts's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02j42c[13].
  • Selous Scouts's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 004153092[14].
  • Selous Scouts's FAST ID is recorded as 1455245[15].
  • Selous Scouts's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007422152705171[16].
  • Selous Scouts's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/30b4caff-1462-411a-9a7b-f8a6f0a4892d[17].

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Founding

+1973-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Selous Scouts[11].

Dissolution

Selous Scouts was dissolved in +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].

Why It Matters

Selous Scouts draws 699 Wikipedia views per month (special_forces category, ranking #7 of 49).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . 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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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