Edom

ancient kingdom in Transjordan located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west and the Arabian Desert to the south and east, today part of Israel and Jordan
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Edom

Summary

Edom is a historical country[1]. They ranks in the top 5% of historical_country entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,692 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Edom's instance of is recorded as historical country[3].
  • Edom's instance of is recorded as realm[4].
  • Edom's instance of is recorded as people[5].
  • Edom's capital is recorded as Bozrah[6].
  • Edom's basic form of government is recorded as monarchy[7].
  • Edom's follows is recorded as Canaan[8].
  • Edom's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157415616[9].
  • Edom's GND ID is recorded as 4355330-8[10].
  • Edom's locator map image is recorded as Edom.PNG[11].
  • Edom's locator map image is recorded as Kingdom of Edom 830 map-pt.svg[12].
  • Edom's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no97061251[13].
  • Edom's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85040984[14].
  • Edom's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 122041737[15].
  • Edom's Commons category is recorded as Edom[16].
  • -1300-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Edom[17].
  • Edom was dissolved in -0533-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • Edom's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 30.328611111111112, 'lon': 35.441944444444445}[19].
  • Edom's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01sn3h[20].
  • Edom's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Edom[21].
  • Edom's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 001049521[22].
  • Edom's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0023489[23].
  • Edom's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0033385[24].
  • Edom's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[25].
  • Edom's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • Edom's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Why It Matters

Edom ranks in the top 5% of historical_country entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,692 views/month).[2] They has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] They is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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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.
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  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] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_edom_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Edom}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/edom}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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