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-themed,

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. It was first published in 1981, under the direction of

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. In 1999,

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'' acquired the rights to the encyclopedia and published a new edition the following year, selling over 8,000 copies. They added an appendix in 2003. They began to scan the encyclopedia in 2002, and in September 2003 released version 1.0 of the On-Line ''Great Aragonese Encyclopedia''. It was offered free on the Internet, with the support of the Government of the

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, between 2003 and 2022.

References

"La Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa ya está en Internet"
, "The ''Grand Aragonese Encyclopedia'' is on the Internet", Aragón Investiga, 13 December 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
"Quiénes somos"
''GEA'' "About us" page

External links

''Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa'' OnLine
home page.
''Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa'' in archive.org
Aragonese culture Mass media in Aragon 1981 non-fiction books 20th-century encyclopedias 21st-century encyclopedias Spanish online encyclopedias {{encyclopedia-stub