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Halil İnalcık

1916 - 2016

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Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halil İnalcık has received more than 226,911 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Halil İnalcık is the 229th most popular historian (down from 201st in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 804th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Turkish Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Halil İnalcık ranks 229 out of 561. Before him are Moritz Cantor, Ghazar Parpetsi, Bernard Berenson, Henri Maspero, Peter Andreas Munch, and Georges Lefebvre. After him are Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, Reinhart Dozy, Gerald of Wales, Maxime Rodinson, Alexander Kazhdan, and Johannes Aventinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Halil İnalcık ranks 129. Before him are Anthony Dawson, Sangoulé Lamizana, Unica Zürn, Lars Korvald, Budd Boetticher, and Morris West. After him are Ingrid Vang Nyman, Gino Bianco, Benjamin Libet, Maurice Bavaud, Arno Peters, and Dorothy McGuire. Among people deceased in 2016, Halil İnalcık ranks 189. Before him are Christina Grimmie, Fazil Iskander, Yūko Tsushima, Klim Churyumov, Jacques Hamel, and Pierre Étaix. After him are Madeleine Lebeau, Željko Čajkovski, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Guido Westerwelle, S. R. Nathan, and Jay Wright Forrester.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Halil İnalcık ranks 714 out of 1,347. Before him are Galla (374), Saint Telemachus (301), Hierocles (200), Eutropia (null), Nilus of Sinai (400), and Adile Naşit (1930). After him are Isaac Komnenos (1093), Cerinthus (100), Ferzan Özpetek (1959), Arctinus of Miletus (-800), Bergüzar Korel (1982), and George of Antioch (1100).

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Among HISTORIANS In Türkiye

Among historians born in Türkiye, Halil İnalcık ranks 16. Before him are Agatharchides (-208), Michael Attaleiates (1021), Doukas (1400), Philostorgius (368), Matthew of Edessa (1100), and Constantine Lascaris (1434). After him are Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826), Cadmus of Miletus (-500), Taner Akçam (1953), Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896), and Cyril Mango (1928).

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