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		ivanhoe on Feb 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Map of battles fought since 2500 B.C and even that data is highly unreliable, for instance if you zoom on post-war Europe (after 1952) one of dots is antic Battle of Bedriacum (which happened in year 56, but BC)

nodegoat on Feb 23, 2016 [–]

This is true. Especially for the data we got through dbpedia, even though we tried to clean this somewhat. See our blog post on this: http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of...

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