Crimean War
military conflict fought between October 1853 – March 1856
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Summary
Crimean War is a war[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of war entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (42,165 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Location: Crimea[3], Caucasus[4], Balkans[5], Black Sea[6], Baltic Sea[7], White Sea[8], Kamchatka Peninsula[9]
- Part of: Russo-Turkish Wars[10], Ottoman Wars in Europe[11]
- Commons category: Crimean War[12]
- Start time: October 1, 1853[13]
- End time: February 1, 1856[14]
- Participant: Second French Empire[15], Russian Empire[16], Ottoman Empire[17], British Empire[18], Kingdom of Sardinia[19], Caucasian Imamate[20], Circassia[21], Egypt eyalet[22], Principality of Mingrelia[23], Kingdom of Greece[24]
- Topic's main category: Category:Crimean War[25]
- Commons gallery: Crimean War[26]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[27], Otto's encyclopedia[28], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[29], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[31], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[32], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[33], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[34], New International Encyclopedia[35], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[37], Meyer’s Universum, Fünfzehnter Band[38], Meyer’s Universum, Siebzehnter Band[39]
- Different from: 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea[40]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[41]
Why It Matters
Crimean War has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]