Velites

Ancient Roman infantry
Organization military_unit Q749335
Velites
«Военная энциклопедия И. Д. Сытина». (Санкт-Петербург; 1911). · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Velites

Summary

Velites is a military unit[1]. Velites ranks in the top 2% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (257 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Velites is in the country of Ancient Rome[3].
  • Velites's image is recorded as Рисунок к статье «Велиты». Военная энциклопедия Сытина (Санкт-Петербург, 1911-1915).jpg[4].
  • Velites's instance of is recorded as military unit[5].
  • Velites's subclass of is recorded as light infantry[6].
  • Velites's Commons category is recorded as Velites[7].
  • Velites's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02qypj[8].
  • Velites's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0150093[9].
  • Velites's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • Velites's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Velites's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • Velites's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[13].
  • Velites's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • Velites's time period is recorded as Roman Republic[15].
  • Velites's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1905969[16].
  • Velites's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as veliti[17].
  • Velites's Oxford Classical Dictionary ID is recorded as 6716[18].
  • Velites's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as velit-0[19].

Why It Matters

Velites ranks in the top 2% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (257 views/month).[2] Velites has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Velites is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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