Croatian Encyclopedia
| Author | Dalibor Brozović, Tomislav Ladan et al. |
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| Original title | Hrvatska enciklopedija |
| Country | Croatia |
| Language | Croatian |
| Subject | General |
| Genre | Reference encyclopedia |
| Publisher | Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute |
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Publication date
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1999–2009 |
| Media type | 11 volumes (hardbound) |
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| OCLC | 247866724 |
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Original text
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Hrvatska enciklopedija online |
The Croatian Encyclopedia (Croatian: Hrvatska enciklopedija) is a Croatian national encyclopedia published by the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute.
The project began in 1999, and it represents a fifth iteration of the encyclopedic tradition that was established by Mate Ujević's Croatian Encyclopedia, and continued in the Encyclopedia of the Lexicographical Institute, as well as the two editions of the General Encyclopedia.
Eleven volumes were published in the period 1999-2009, with a new volume appearing every year. Since 2010 the Internet edition of the encyclopedia was prepared, updated and enriched with new multimedia content. The free Internet edition of the Croatian Encyclopedia has been available since September 2013. Paper volumes are no longer be published and further work will be exclusively done in a form of a computer database, which serves as the basis for Internet and other multimedia editions of the encyclopedia.
Printed volumes total 9272 pages and 67,077 articles, with a total of 1,059,000 lines of text. It represents a combined effort of 1070 authors, mainly associates. Individual volumes are a result of collaboration of 20 to 30 workers of the Lexicographic Institute, and 300-400 associate contributors.
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