The ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' ( uz, Oʻzbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi, OʻzME in
Latin script
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, Ўзбекистон миллий энциклопедияси, ЎзМЭ in
Cyrillic script
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) is a general-knowledge
encyclopedia
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written in
Uzbek. The majority of the articles in the ''National Encyclopedia'' were directly taken from the ''
Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia''.
While the ''Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia'' was published in 14 volumes, the ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' has only 12, much smaller volumes. The first volume of the ''National Encyclopedia'' was published in 2000. The final 12th volume was published in 2005.
History
The ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' was published in
Tashkent
Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...
from 2000 to 2005 by the National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan State Scientific Publishing House. The encyclopedia was printed in
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
even though it was published long after Uzbekistan introduced the
Latin script
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to Uzbek. In 2013, all of the articles of the ''National Encyclopedia'' were added to the
Uzbek Wikipedia with the help of a
bot. In 2022,the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan officially released the OʻzME under a
CC BY 4.0
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license.
Content
The ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' has about 50,000 entries. The majority of the articles in the ''National Encyclopedia'' were directly taken from the ''Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia''. The bulk of the ''National Encyclopedia'' (40 percent) is devoted to subjects about Uzbekistan. About 60 percent of the articles are on
social sciences
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and the other 40 percent are on
natural sciences
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. The 12th volume is entirely dedicated to subjects about Uzbekistan.
The encyclopedia praises
Islam Karimov
Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was t ...
, the late president of Uzbekistan, and his administration. The first volume starts with a congratulatory letter from Karimov.
See also
* ''
Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia''
*
Culture of Uzbekistan The culture of Uzbekistan has a wide mix of ethnic groups and cultures, with the Uzbeks being the majority group. In 1995, about 71% of Uzbekistan's population was Uzbek. The chief minority groups were Russians (8.4%), Tajiks (officially 5%, but bel ...
*
Uzbek literature
Uzbek literature refers to the literature produced and developed in the Republic of Uzbekistan with additional literary works contributed by the other parts of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan people of Central Asia. Influenced by the Russia ...
References
External links
Official website of the ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan''
All volumes of the ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan''{{in lang, uz
Uzbekistani online encyclopedias
Uzbek-language encyclopedias
National encyclopedias
2000 non-fiction books
21st-century encyclopedias