Wei

ancient Chinese state during the Warring States period
Organization ancient_chinese_state Q912052
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Wei

Summary

Wei is an ancient Chinese state[1]. Wei draws 240 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_chinese_state category, ranking #8 of 64).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wei's image is recorded as EN-WEI260BCE.jpg[3].
  • Wei's continent is recorded as Asia[4].
  • Wei's instance of is recorded as ancient Chinese state[5].
  • Wei's instance of is recorded as country[6].
  • Wei's instance of is recorded as historical country[7].
  • Wei's capital is recorded as Daliang[8].
  • Wei's basic form of government is recorded as Chinese nobility[9].
  • Wei's locator map image is recorded as EN-WEI260BCE.jpg[10].
  • Wei's locator map image is recorded as ZH-魏国地图260BCE.jpg[11].
  • Wei's part of is recorded as Seven Warring States[12].
  • Wei's part of is recorded as Sanjin[13].
  • Wei's Commons category is recorded as Warring States Period[14].
  • -0403-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Wei[15].
  • Wei was dissolved in -0225-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Wei's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 34.798, 'lon': 114.308}[17].
  • Wei's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qkq9[18].
  • Wei's cause of destruction is recorded as Qin's Wars of Unification[19].
  • Wei's significant event is recorded as Q18456434[20].
  • Wei's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wei (state)[21].
  • Wei's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300264897[22].
  • Wei's described by source is recorded as Records of the Grand Historian[23].
  • Wei's replaces is recorded as Jin[24].
  • Wei's replaces is recorded as Zhongshan[25].
  • Wei's replaced by is recorded as Qin[26].
  • Wei's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Wei-ancient-kingdom-China[27].

Body

Founding

-0403-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Wei[15].

Identity

Part of include Seven Warring States[12], a group[28], in Eastern Zhou[29] and Sanjin[13], a group[30], in China[31], founded in -0403[32].

Dissolution

Wei was dissolved in -0225-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].

Why It Matters

Wei draws 240 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_chinese_state category, ranking #8 of 64).[2] Wei has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Wei is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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] . 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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . 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. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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