Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia

The Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Enciklopedija Jugoslavije) was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was published by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute (Zagreb) under the direction of Miroslav Krleža. Lawrence S. Thompson reviewed the Encyclopedia so: The first volume (A-Bosk) of the new Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia deserves attention not only as an important general reference work on Yugoslavia but also for the very extensive attention devoted to libraries, historical bibliography, archives, and other related subjects.[1]

Volumes

First edition
Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, 1st edition

The first edition consists of 8 volumes, issued from 1955 to 1971. It was printed in 30,000 copies.

Article span Year of
publishing		 Number of
pages
1 A-Bosk 1955 708
2 Bosna-Dio 1956 716
3 Dip-Hiđ 1958 686
4 Hil-Jugos 1960 651
5 Jugos-Mak 1962 690
6 Maklj-Put 1965 562
7 R-Srbija 1968 688
8 Srbija-Ž 1971 654

Second edition

Work on the second edition started in 1980, but was not finished due to the Yugoslav wars. Only 6 of 12 planned volumes appeared.

Article span Year of
publishing		 Number of
pages
1 A-Biz 1980 767
2 Bje-Crn 1982 776
3 Crn-Đ 1984 750
4 E-Hrv 1986 748
5 Hrv-Janj 1988 776
6 Jap-Kat 1990 731

The main Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet edition has been translated into 5 additional language-alphabet combinations:

Language / Alphabet First volume
published in		 Volumes
published
Serbo-Croatian / Cyrillic 1983 2
Slovenian 1983 4
Macedonian 1984 2
Albanian 1984 2
Hungarian 1985 2

The Macedonian and Albanian variants were the first encyclopedias published in the respective languages.

References
  1. Thompson, Lawrence S. (1956). "Enciklopedija jugoslavije, Volume I: A-Bosk". The Library Quarterly. 26 (2): 155. doi:10.1086/618316.
  • "Enciklopedije i leksikoni". Enciklopedija Jugoslavije IV (in Croatian) (2nd ed.). Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. 1986.


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