Silk Road

Summary

Silk Road is a trade route^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of trade_route entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,925 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Silk Road is credited with the discovery of Ferdinand von Richthofen^[3].
• Silk Road's image is recorded as Silk road Kazakhstan.svg^[4].
• Silk Road's instance of is recorded as trade route^[5].
• Silk Road's instance of is recorded as historic road^[6].
• Silk Road's follows is recorded as Steppe Route^[7].
• Silk Road's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 170952654^[8].
• Silk Road's GND ID is recorded as 4054299-3^[9].
• Silk Road's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85122554^[10].
• Silk Road's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11970767h^[11].
• Silk Road's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15230062c^[12].
• Silk Road's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00571235^[13].
• Silk Road's Commons category is recorded as Silk Road^[14].
• Silk Road's has part is recorded as Maritime Silk Road^[15].
• Silk Road's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f5mq^[16].
• Silk Road's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge194604^[17].
• Silk Road's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Silk Road^[18].
• Silk Road's Commons gallery is recorded as Silk Road^[19].
• Silk Road's page banner is recorded as Wikiwyprawa 2015 IGP2382 (cropped).jpg^[20].
• Silk Road's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 000748773^[21].
• Silk Road's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX454566^[22].
• Silk Road's Vatican Library ID is recorded as ADV11984660^[23].
• Silk Road's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7^[24].
• Silk Road's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Silk-Road-trade-route^[25].
• Silk Road's BBC Things ID is recorded as b233168c-0846-4951-8140-e9d846da644a^[26].
• Silk Road's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031416^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include trade route^[5] and historic road^[6].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Silk Road include it^[28], a darknet market^[29], founded in 2011^[30]; Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor^[31], a transboundary site^[32], in People's Republic of China^[33]; Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor^[34], a transboundary site^[35], in Tajikistan^[36]; and Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum^[37], an art museum^[38], in Japan^[39], founded in 2004^[40].

Why It Matters

Silk Road ranks in the top 4% of trade_route entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,925 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[41] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[42]

Entities named for it include it^[28], a darknet market^[29], founded in 2011^[30]; Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor^[31], a transboundary site^[32], in People's Republic of China^[33]; Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor^[34], a transboundary site^[35], in Tajikistan^[36]; and Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum^[37], an art museum^[38], in Japan^[39], founded in 2004^[40].