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Yunus Emre

1240 - 1321

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Yunus Emre (Turkish pronunciation: [juːˈnus emˈɾe]) also known as Derviş Yûnus (Yûnus the Dervish) (1238–1320) (Old Anatolian Turkish: يونس امره) was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi who greatly influenced Turkish culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yunus Emre has received more than 804,893 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Yunus Emre is the 434th most popular writer (up from 471st in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 209th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Turkish Writer.

Yunus Emre is most famous for his poems.

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  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yunus Emre ranks 434 out of 5,755. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal, Ennius, Louise de La Vallière, Constantine P. Cavafy, Louisa May Alcott, and Traudl Junge. After him are Tennessee Williams, Patrick Modiano, Christopher Marlowe, Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, and Mika Waltari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1240, Yunus Emre ranks 3. Before him are Pope Benedict XI and Cimabue. After him are Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Arnolfo di Cambio, Abraham Abulafia, Pietro Cavallini, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Siger of Brabant, Magnus III of Sweden, Emperor Duzong, and Boetius of Dacia. Among people deceased in 1321, Yunus Emre ranks 2. Before him is Dante Alighieri. After him are Stefan Milutin, Birger, King of Sweden, Matthew III Csák, María de Molina, and Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Yunus Emre ranks 198 out of 1,301. Before him are Adnan Menderes (1899), Süleyman Demirel (1924), Hippodamus of Miletus (-498), Proclus (412), Sabiha Gökçen (1913), and Anthemius (420). After him are Turgut Özal (1927), Bias of Priene (-600), Pulcheria (399), Gregory Palamas (1296), Pope John VI (655), and Ismihan Sultan (1544).

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Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Yunus Emre ranks 9. Before him are Anacreon (-570), Constantine VII (905), Orhan Pamuk (1952), Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), and Ammianus Marcellinus (330). After him are Giorgos Seferis (1900), Novatian (220), Theodore the Studite (759), Aratus (-315), Zosimus (460), and André Chénier (1762).

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