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old town

part of a town or city in which the principal public and historic buildings are located
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old town

Summary

old town ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (536 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • old town is a type of quarter[2].
  • old town is a type of region[3].
  • old town is a type of architectural ensemble[4].
  • old town's Commons category is recorded as Old towns[5].
  • old town's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Historic districts[6].
  • old town's different from is recorded as historic district[7].
  • old town's different from is recorded as historic center[8].
  • old town's exact match is recorded as http://fr.dbpedia.org/resource/Centre_historique[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include quarter[2], region[3], and architectural ensemble[4].

Why It Matters

old town ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (536 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 23h ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0203748-mestska-historicka-centra
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0203748-mestska-historicka-centra, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  2. 2d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → historic district, historic center
    Subclass of → quarter, region, architectural ensemble
    Topic's main category → Category:Historic districts
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX556292"
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