levee

artificial ridge or wall to hold back water
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levee

Summary

levee ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,012 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • The location of levee was bank[2].
  • levee is a type of flood control structure[3].
  • levee is a type of civil engineering construction[4].
  • levee is a type of dam from granular material[5].
  • levee is a type of fixed-crest weir[6].
  • levee is a type of hydraulic structure[7].
  • levee is a type of levee[8].
  • levee is used for protection[9].
  • levee is used for flood control[10].
  • levee's Commons category is recorded as Dikes[11].
  • levee's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dikes[12].
  • levee's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=dyke[13].
  • levee's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[14].
  • levee's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • levee's different from is recorded as Grobla[16].
  • levee's different from is recorded as Levy[17].
  • levee's fabrication method is recorded as embankment[18].
  • levee's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000178[19].
  • levee's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include flood control structure[3], civil engineering construction[4], dam from granular material[5], fixed-crest weir[6], hydraulic structure[7], and levee[8].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include protection[9] and flood control[10].

Influence

Things named for levee include Amsterdam[21], a municipality of the Netherlands[22], in Netherlands[23], founded in 1812[24], headquartered in Amsterdam[25].

Why It Matters

levee ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,012 views/month).[1] levee has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] levee is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Entities named for levee include Amsterdam[21], a municipality of the Netherlands[22], in Netherlands[23], founded in 1812[24], headquartered in Amsterdam[25].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . 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. 22d ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from Grobla, Levy
    Wikidata description artificial ridge or wall to hold back water
    Svkkl authority id h0008666-hraze
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008666-hraze, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 6w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Art & architecture thesaurus id 300006156, 300170882
    Subclass of
    Has use protection, flood control
    Different from Grobla, Levy
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P8189]], mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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