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Gediminas

1275 - 1341

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Gediminas (Latin: Gedeminne, Gedeminnus; c. 1275 – December 1341) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death in 1341. He is considered the founder of Lithuania's capital Vilnius (see: Iron Wolf legend). During his reign, he brought under his rule lands from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gediminas has received more than 424,447 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Gediminas is the 941st most popular politician (up from 956th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 5th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Politician.

Gediminas was a Lithuanian Grand Duke and King of Lithuania. He is most famous for founding the city of Vilnius.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gediminas ranks 941 out of 19,576. Before him are Sergey Lavrov, Arnulf of Carinthia, James A. Garfield, Robert F. Kennedy, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Reuven Rivlin. After him are John the Fearless, Sigismund I the Old, Onan, Paul Barras, Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, and Alberto Fujimori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1275, Gediminas ranks 2. Before him is Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Marsilius of Padua, Basarab I of Wallachia, Dnyaneshwar, John II, Duke of Brabant, Mondino de Luzzi, Chungseon of Goryeo, Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel, Musō Soseki, Edward Bruce, and Abu Sa'id Uthman II. Among people deceased in 1341, Gediminas ranks 1. After him are Andronikos III Palaiologos, Öz Beg Khan, Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, An-Nasir Muhammad, Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond, John III, Duke of Brittany, Juliana Falconieri, Leo IV, King of Armenia, Martha of Denmark, Al-Mansur Abu Bakr, and Al-Wathiq I.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Gediminas ranks 4 out of 328. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), and Vytautas (1352). After him are Czesław Miłosz (1911), Mindaugas (1203), Emmanuel Levinas (1906), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), and Pyotr Wrangel (1878).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Gediminas ranks 4. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), and Vytautas (1352). After him are Mindaugas (1203), Algirdas (1296), Kęstutis (1297), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Antanas Smetona (1874), Hacı I Giray (1397), and Vytautas Landsbergis (1932).

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