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Gurkha

Nepalese and Indian National Soldiers
Class type of: soldier, military branch Q207962

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
isolated human group, soldier[6]
Country
Nepal, British Raj[4][5]
Subclass of
soldier, military branch
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Draft History of Qing, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7][8][9][10][11]
Name
ꠉꠥꠞ꠆ꠈꠣ[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Goorkhas en Tharu people en Pahari people en Madhesi people en Gurkhas en Gurkha en Gorkha ar جوركا cs Gurkhové da Gurkhaer da Gorkhasoldat da Gorkhaer da Gurkha-soldater da Gurkhasoldat da Gurkhasoldater da Gorkhasoldater el Γκούρκα el Γκόρκα es Gorkha es Gurja
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gurkha Soldier Monument, London - April 2008.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
clm1wxp5myxt
BBC Things ID
f8d4181b-cffb-4bc8-b584-795a0567d630
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Gurkha-people
Freebase ID
/m/018mf3
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1936232
Harper's tag
gurkhas
Larousse ID
divers/Gurkhas/122791
Lex ID
gurkha
Museum-digital tag ID
20410
NL CR AUT ID
ph785278
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1103054
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Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3908944
Quora topic ID
Gurkha
SVKKL authority ID
0331676-Gurkhove
SocioMap ID
SM256234
Topic's main category
Category:Gurkhas
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
gorkha
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09743779-n

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Draft History of Qing, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Subclass of 2
soldier, military branch
Country 1
Nepal
Instance of 1
soldier
Participated in 1
Sino-Nepalese War
Topic's main category 1
Category:Gurkhas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Gurkhas
← FactGrid item ID 1
Little Totham
← Military branch 1
Nirmal Purja
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Summary

Gurkha is an isolated human group[1]. Gurkha is a type of soldier[2] and military branch[3].

Related Entities

Nepal Nirmal Purja

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed labels, descriptions or aliases: import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 9w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SocioMap ID → SM256234
    Harper's tag → gurkhas
    "Created claim: SocioMap ID: SM256234, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789071553872"
  3. 21w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #36807: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  4. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Draft History of Qing, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Topic's main category → Category:Gurkhas
    Subclass of → soldier, military branch
    Instance of → isolated human group, soldier
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0331676-Gurkhove, batch #259599"
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