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Shanidar Cave

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Shanidar Cave

Summary

Shanidar Cave is a cave[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of cave entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (711 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shanidar Cave is located in Erbil Governorate[3].
  • Shanidar Cave is in the country of Iraq[4].
  • Shanidar Cave's image is recorded as Erbil governorate shanidar cave.jpg[5].
  • Shanidar Cave's instance of is recorded as cave[6].
  • Shanidar Cave's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[7].
  • Shanidar Cave's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315526713[8].
  • Shanidar Cave's Commons category is recorded as Shanidar Cave[9].
  • Shanidar Cave's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 36.8006, 'lon': 44.2433}[10].
  • Shanidar Cave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01xb_7[11].
  • Shanidar Cave's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[12].
  • Shanidar Cave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Shanidar[13].
  • Shanidar Cave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Shanidar-remains[14].
  • Shanidar Cave's GeoNames ID is recorded as 91088[15].
  • Shanidar Cave's Pleiades ID is recorded as 493567306[16].
  • Shanidar Cave's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -3110930[17].
  • Shanidar Cave's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4690190[18].
  • Shanidar Cave's NE.se ID is recorded as shanidar[19].
  • Shanidar Cave's Quora topic ID is recorded as Shanidar-Cave[20].
  • Shanidar Cave's mountain range is recorded as Zagros Mountains[21].
  • Shanidar Cave's Who's on First ID is recorded as 1343442153[22].
  • Shanidar Cave's Kulturenvanteri monument ID is recorded as 242071[23].

Why It Matters

Shanidar Cave ranks in the top 2% of cave entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (711 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Iraq Zagros Mountains

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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