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Saracen

Medieval European term for Muslims and/or people who lived in desert areas, specifically Arabia
Intangible historical_ethnic_group Q105763
Saracen
Erhard Reuwich · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Saracen is a historical ethnic group[1]. Saracen ranks in the top 4% of historical ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,936 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Commons category: Saracens[3]
  • Said to be the same as: Kurdish[4]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[5], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[8], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9], The New Student's Reference Work[10]

Why It Matters

Saracen has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] Saracen is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Beaucaire

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . 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. 8d ago · Torquatus · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 70
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca'
    Pleiades id → 697748
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pleiades id: 697748"
  2. 5w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM492887
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Sociomap id: SM492887, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789071553872"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Kurdish
    Aliases → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3536387
    Local thumb → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 26219, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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