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prohibition

outlawing of the consumption, sale, production, etc. of alcohol
Intangible legislation Q46388
prohibition
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Summary

prohibition is a legislation[1]. prohibition ranks in the top 4% of legislation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,844 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: social movement[3], ideology[4]
  • Subclass of: ban[5], prohibition of drugs[6]
  • Commons category: Alcohol prohibition[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Prohibition[8]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Different from: prohibition in the United States[11]

Why It Matters

prohibition has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] prohibition is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Hodges University

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . 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. 13d ago · Hirho · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Alcohol prohibition
    Sitelink count → 56
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Commons category: Alcohol prohibition"
  2. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → prohibition
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: prohibition, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949501|prohibition (#289949501)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 19w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → prohibicija
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: prohibicija"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → prohibition in the United States
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → ban, prohibition of drugs
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 3486, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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