siege

military blockade of a city or fortress
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siege

Summary

siege is a military tactics[1]. siege draws 1,804 Wikipedia views per month (military_tactics category, ranking #6 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • siege's instance of is recorded as military tactics[3].
  • siege's instance of is recorded as type of conflict[4].
  • siege is a type of blockade[5].
  • siege is a type of military operation[6].
  • siege is a type of armed conflict[7].
  • siege is part of war[8].
  • siege's Commons category is recorded as Sieges[9].
  • siege's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Siege warfare[10].
  • siege's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sieges[11].
  • siege's depicted by is recorded as Capture of Castle[12].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[14].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[15].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[16].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[19].
  • siege's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[20].
  • siege's main Wikidata property is recorded as P607[21].
  • siege's different from is recorded as blockade[22].
  • siege's different from is recorded as lockout[23].
  • siege's history of topic is recorded as History of the siege[24].
  • siege's studied by is recorded as Poliorcetica[25].
  • siege's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].
  • siege's model item is recorded as Siege of Orléans[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include military tactics[3] and type of conflict[4]. Recorded subclass of include blockade[5], military operation[6], and armed conflict[7].

Use and Application

siege is part of war[8].

Why It Matters

siege draws 1,804 Wikipedia views per month (military_tactics category, ranking #6 of 42).[2] siege has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] siege is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of war
    Subclass of blockade, military operation, armed conflict
    Instance of
    Part of
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12278, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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