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dabke

A traditional Syrian collective folk dance, performed to the tunes of folk songs at celebrations and weddings
Class type of: Levantine Arabic music, Arab folk dance Q1156570

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
music genre, type of dance[4]
Country
Palestine, Iraq[2][3]
Subclass of
Levantine Arabic music, Arab folk dance[5][6]
Described by source
Oral history interview record AY.3.2026.04.07, “Archaeological Archives as Inclusive Learning Laboratories”[7]
Intangible cultural heritage status
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, National List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Iraq[8][9]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en dubki en dabkaat en dabke en dabkeh en dabka ar دبكة ar الدبكة de Debka es Debkeh es Dabka es Debka es Debke fa دبکه fr Dabké he דבקה ja ダブケ ko 답케 ms Dabkah ru дабка th ดับกะฮ์
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dabkeh.png ↗
Discogs style ID
dabke
Every Noise at Once ID
dabke
Freebase ID
/m/079ncc
ITunes genre ID (archived)
8.4k (2.0k–100k, n=3)
MusicBrainz genre ID
4ef0ff22-6dc7-416a-855c-a84de5b7637a
Quora topic ID
Dabkeh
Rate Your Music genre ID
dabke
Topic's main category
Category:Dabke
UNESCO ICH ID
RL/01998
Vikidia article ID
fr:Dabkeh
Yandex Music genre ID
dabkegenre

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🔗 Connections
Country 2
Iraq, Palestine
Instance of 1
music genre
Intangible cultural heritage status 1
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Subclass of 1
Arab folk dance
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Summary

dabke is a music genre[1].

Related Entities

Iraq Palestine

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . ich.unesco.org. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . ich.unesco.org. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Adnan Almohamad · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Yandex Music genre ID → dabkegenre
    Topic's main category → Category:Dabke
    Country → Palestine, Iraq
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Described by source: Oral history interview record AY.3.2026.04.07, “Archaeological Archives as Inclusive Learning Laboratories”"
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