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olympiad
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unit of time
- Subclass of
- historical period
- Image
- Antikes Olympia Stadion.JPG
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Olympic Games
- conversion to standard unit
- 4
- conversion to SI unit
- 126144000
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Ancient Olympics
- Historians
- Examples of Ancient Olympiad dates
- Anolympiad
- End of the era
- Modern Olympics
- Start and end
- Quadrennium
- Cultural programmes
- Other uses
- Notes
- References
- External links
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An olympiad (, Olympiás) is a period of four years, particularly those associated with the ancient and modern Olympic Games.
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