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belly dance

Arabic dance
Intangible type_of_dance Q182863
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Summary

belly dance is a type of dance[1]. It ranks in the top 0.67% of type of dance entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,567 views/month, #5 of 748).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Middle Eastern dance[3]
  • Commons category: Raqs Sharqi[4]
  • Country of origin: Middle East[5], Arab world[6]
  • Inception: 5000 BC[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Belly dance[8]
  • Partially coincident with: raqs sharqi[9]
  • History of topic: History of belly dance[10]
  • Uses: Arabic belly dance music[11]
  • Practiced by: belly dancer[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]

Why It Matters

belly dance has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Country of origin → Middle East, Arab world
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