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Ishtar Gate

eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon
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Summary

Ishtar Gate is a city gate[1]. It ranks in the top 0.36% of city gate entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,624 views/month, #1 of 276).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Hillah[3]
  • Country: Germany[4], Iraq[5]
  • Instance of: arch[6]
  • Commissioned by: Nebuchadnezzar II[7]
  • Named after: Ishtar[8]
  • Collection: Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin[9]
  • Part of: Babylon[10]
  • Commons category: Ishtar Gate[11]
  • Inception: 575 BC[12]

Why It Matters

Ishtar Gate has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Germany Hillah Iraq Nebuchadnezzar II

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Make Lists, Not War. beckchris.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ishtar-gate-babylon
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: ishtar-gate-babylon, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289938017|ishtar gate babylon (#289938017)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  2. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 8aL3d
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 32.543333, 'lon': 44.422222}
    Named after → Ishtar
    Part of → Babylon
    Commissioned by → Nebuchadnezzar II
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007543966005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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