plebeians

the general body of free Roman citizens in ancient Rome who were not patricians
Organization social_status Q104687
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Summary

plebeians is a social status[1]. plebeians draws 5,421 Wikipedia views per month (social status category, ranking #4 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: population group[3], social class in ancient Rome[4]
  • Subclass of: Romans[5], Roman citizenship[6]
  • Part of: patricians and plebeians[7]
  • Has part(s): equites[8], plebeius[9], plebeia[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ancient Roman plebeians[11]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[12], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], The Encyclopedia Americana[18], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[19], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[20]
  • Has characteristic: Roman citizenship[21]

Why It Matters

plebeians has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] plebeians is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · Tolanor · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa"
  2. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 5129
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 5129, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287207|plebs (#107287207)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical "
  3. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → patricians and plebeians
    Has part(s) → equites, plebeius, plebeia
    Subclass of → —
    Has parts → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007555703705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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