{{Esperanto sidebar , expanded=Services Encyclopedias in Esperanto ( eo, Enciklopedioj de Esperanto) are Esperanto-language

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s. There have been several different attempts of creating an encyclopedia of all

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topics.

History

In 1913, Petro Stojan proposed the ''Universal Monograph Encyclopedia'' ( eo, Universala Slipa Enciklopedio), which would be continuously published with separate monographs for each subject. The first five monographs ("The encyclopedia and its future", "Cinematic theory on time", the hymn "

La Espero "La Espero" ( en, "The Hope") is a poem written by Polish-Jewish doctor L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language. The song is often used as the (unofficial) anthem of Esperanto, and is now usually sung to a trium ...

", "Transcription of proper names", and "Gathering", a poem by L. Levenzon) were published at that time. In 1917, Vladimír Szmurlo published another encyclopedia in

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called ''Ariadne's Thread'', with a few references as "A first try of an ''Encyclopedia of Esperantism''; with a firm belief that out of that . . . seed will grow a huge tree of the ''Universal Esperanto Encyclopedia''." The first pages (1–88) were printed in

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. Due to military circumstances, the next pages of the book appeared infrequently, only after the letter ' E', and with very short content.

Enciklopedio de Esperanto

From 1933-34, the ''Encyclopedia of Esperanto'', an encyclopedia of the

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, appeared in two editions of ''

Literatura Mondo ''Literatura Mondo'' (''Literary World'') was a literary Esperanto periodical and publishing house in Budapest, Hungary between 1922 and 1949. It became the focal point of the so-called Budapest School of Esperanto literature. It was founded by T ...

'' in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

. A reprint was published in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

by the Hungarian Esperanto Association in 1979 and

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

. The majority of the original articles in this encyclopedia have been made into Wikipedia articles on the

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Enciklopedio Kalblanda

In 1996, the ''

Enciklopedio Kalblanda ''Enciklopedio Kalblanda'' ( en, Kalb-land Encyclopedia), edited from 1996 to 2001, was the first online encyclopedia written in the Esperanto language. It was founded on January 11, 1996 by Stephen Kalb, who was the general editor. The encyclop ...

'', an

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Esperanto Wikipedia, was founded by Stephen Kalb. Kalb edited the encyclopedia until 2001, when he donated all 139 of the encyclopedia's articles to the Esperanto Wikipedia.

Esperanto wikipedia

In 2001, the Esperanto Wikipedia was launched and is today the most expansive Esperanto encyclopedia. A number of articles concerning the

are based on Enciklopedio de Esperanto.

External links

The ''Encyclopedia of Esperanto''
the 1933–34 ''Encyclopedia of Esperanto'' in its original form
Esperanto Wikipedia
(Vikipedio) 1913 non-fiction books 1917 non-fiction books 1933 non-fiction books

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