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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	World War II	73,488
2	Iraq War	12,967
3	20th century	4,326
4	Iran–Iraq War	3,696
5	Modern history	2,261
6	Information Age	1,340
7	Early modern period	1,173
8	War in Somalia (2006–2009)	516
9	Early modern Europe	441
10	Great Divergence	254
11	Timeline of modern history	237
12	Bengal Renaissance	220
13	Timeline of early modern history	184
14	20th century events	60
15	Lead up to the Iraq War	49
16	War in Vietnam (1959–1963)	32
17	Iraq Freedom Congress	28
18	Imagination Age	13
19	War in Vietnam (1954–1959)	11
20	Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies	9
21	Combatants of the Iraq War	9

Subcategories

• 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century
• Arab–Israeli conflict
• Cold War
• Early Modern period
• Industrial Revolution
• Interwar period
• Modern Christian history
• Modern Europe
• Modern history by country
• Modern literature
• Modern obsolete currencies
• Modern philosophy
• Modern reenactment
• Women writers (modern period)
• World War I
• World War II

Parent categories

• Historical eras

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