Vikings

Norse people, farmers, merchants, explorers, raiders and pirates
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Vikings

Summary

Vikings is a people[1]. They ranks in the top 1% of people entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,348 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vikings's instance of is recorded as people[3].
  • Vikings's instance of is recorded as historical period[4].
  • Vikings's instance of is recorded as culture[5].
  • Vikings's instance of is recorded as style[6].
  • Vikings's Commons category is recorded as Vikings[7].
  • Vikings began on 745[8].
  • Vikings's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vikings[9].
  • Vikings's Commons gallery is recorded as Vikings[10].
  • Vikings's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as historic:civilization=vikingian[11].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • Vikings's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[17].
  • Vikings's different from is recorded as Wikingowie[18].
  • Vikings's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q110097651[19].
  • Vikings's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[20].
  • Vikings's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].
  • Vikings's has works in the collection is recorded as Fries Museum[22].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Vikings include Minnesota Vikings[23], an American football team[24], in United States[25], founded in 1961[26], headquartered in Minnesota[27] and Viking Thunder Clap[28], in France[29].

Why It Matters

Vikings ranks in the top 1% of people entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,348 views/month).[2] They has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] They is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for them include Minnesota Vikings[23], an American football team[24], in United States[25], founded in 1961[26], headquartered in Minnesota[27] and Viking Thunder Clap[28], in France[29].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . 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] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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