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simony

Summary

simony ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (927 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • simony's image is recorded as Simonie - Medieval Manuscripts Albert Derolez (cropped)2.jpg[2].
  • Simon Magus is named after simony[3].
  • simony's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85122739[4].
  • simony's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 133192272[5].
  • simony's subclass of is recorded as corruption[6].
  • simony's subclass of is recorded as religious crime[7].
  • simony's Commons category is recorded as Simony[8].
  • simony's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 27353[9].
  • simony's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06_81[10].
  • simony's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph138489[11].
  • simony's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Simony[12].
  • simony's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX544979[13].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • simony's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19].
  • simony's different from is recorded as Q9348928[20].
  • simony's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3663054[21].
  • simony's Catholic Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 14001a[22].
  • simony's Treccani ID is recorded as simonia[23].
  • simony's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 2663248[24].
  • simony's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].
  • simony's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781153677[26].

Why It Matters

simony ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (927 views/month).[1] simony has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] simony is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] . Treccani's Enciclopedia on line. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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