town meeting

form of direct democracy for cities or towns
Organization legislature Q455752
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town meeting

Summary

town meeting is a legislature[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of legislature entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (198 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • town meeting's image is recorded as Huntington town meeting.jpg[3].
  • town meeting's instance of is recorded as legislature[4].
  • town meeting's subclass of is recorded as popular assembly[5].
  • town meeting's subclass of is recorded as legislature[6].
  • town meeting's Commons category is recorded as Town meetings[7].
  • town meeting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01__x_[8].
  • town meeting's HDS ID is recorded as 010240[9].
  • town meeting's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300069691[10].
  • town meeting's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[11].
  • town meeting's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/town-meeting[12].
  • town meeting's different from is recorded as town hall meeting[13].
  • town meeting's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm010932[14].
  • town meeting's American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID is recorded as afset018852[15].

Why It Matters

town meeting ranks in the top 3% of legislature entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (198 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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