Albanian

Encyclopedias written in Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

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• Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary  - published by Academy of Sciences of Albania
  Academy of Sciences of Albania
  The Academy of Sciences of Albania , founded in 1972, is the most important scientific institution in Albania. The institution includes the most distinguished scientists, also called "academics", that are involved in research centers and other organisms inside and outside Albania...
  
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• Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  The Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was published by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute under the direction of Miroslav Krleža...
  
   (Albanian edition - the very first encyclopedia published in Albanian)
• Albanian Wikipedia
  Albanian Wikipedia
  Albanian Wikipedia is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on October 12, 2003. As of April 22, 2008 the Wikipedia has over 20,000 articles and is the 67th largest Wikipedia.- Article growth :- References :***-External links:...
  
   (Wikipedia shqip)

Azerbaijani

Encyclopedias written in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

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• Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia
  Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia is a 10 volume universal encyclopedia published in Baku, Azerbaijan from 1976 to 1987...
  
  

Belarusian

Encyclopedias written in Belarusian

Belarusian language

The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

• Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1976) (Беларуская савецкая энцыклапедыя)
• Belarusian Encyclopedia (1996–2004) (Беларуская энцыклапедыя)

Bulgarian

Encyclopedias written in Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

• Danchovi Bros Bulgarian Encyclopedia (1936)  (Българска енциклопедия на Братя Данчови)
• Concise Bulgarian Encyclopedia (1963-1969)  (Кратка българска енциклопедия)
• Encyclopedia Bulgaria (1981-1997)  (Енциклопедия България)
• Bulgarian Wikipedia
  Bulgarian Wikipedia
  The Bulgarian Wikipedia is the Bulgarian language edition of Wikipedia. On it had articles. It was founded on 6 December 2003. On 24 May 2010, it became the 32nd largest Wikipedia by size and it passed the 100,000 articles threshold.-History:...
  
   (Уикипедия на български език)

Catalan

Encyclopedias written in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

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• Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
  Great Catalan Encyclopedia
  The Great Catalan Encyclopedia is a Catalan-language encyclopedia, started by fascicles, and published in 1968 by Edicions 62. The soul of the work was written by Max Cahner, and the first director was Jordi Carbonell i Ballester...
  
   http://www.grec.cat/ (Catalan Encyclopedia)

Croatian

Encyclopedia written in Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

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• Enciklopedija hrvatske umjetnosti (1995–1996) (Encyclopedia of Croatian Art)
• Filmska enciklopedija (1986–1990) (Film Encyclopedia)
• General Encyclopedia of the Yugoslavian Lexicographical Institute (Opća enciklopedija Jugoslavenskog leksikografskog zavoda)
• Hrvatska enciklopedija (1999–2007) (Croatian Encyclopedia)
• Istarska enciklopedija (2005) (Istrian Encyclopedia)
• Krležijana (1993–1999) (Encyclopedia of Miroslav Krleža)
• Medicinska enciklopedija (1967–1986) (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Pomorska enciklopedija (1972–1989) (Naval Encyclopedia)
• Proleksis Encyclopedia
  Proleksis Encyclopedia
  The Proleksis Encyclopedia is the first Croatian general and national online encyclopedia.Proleksis Encyclopedia features more than 62,000 articles and more than 17,000 photographs, illustrations and maps. It is freely available to registered users of CARNet, the Croatian national research and...
  
   (Proleksis enciklopedija)
• Tehnička enciklopedija (1963–1997) (Technical Encyclopedia)
• Croatian Wikipedia
  Croatian Wikipedia
  The Croatian Wikipedia is the Croatian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on February 16, 2003. This version has more than 103,000 articles , making it the 39th largest edition of Wikipedia....
  
   (Wikipedija na hrvatskom jeziku)

Danish

Encyclopedias written in Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

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• Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
  Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
  Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon is a Danish encyclopedia that has been published in several editions.The first edition, Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon was published in nineteen volumes 1893-1911 by Brødrene Salmonsens Forlag, and named after the publisher Isaac Salmonsen...
  
  
• Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
  Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
  Den Store Danske Encyklopædi is the most comprehensive contemporary Danish language encyclopedia. The 20 volumes of the encyclopedia were published successively between 1994 and 2001; a one-volume supplement was published in 2002 and two index volumes in 2003...
  
  
• Danish Wikipedia
  Danish Wikipedia
  The Danish Wikipedia started on 1 February 2002 and is the Danish-language edition of Wikipedia. As of October 11, 2011 it has over 155,000 articles.- Characteristics :* No fair use: The Danish Wikipedia has no fair use provisions...
  
  

Dutch

Encyclopedias written in Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

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• Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie
  Winkler Prins encyclopedia
  The Winkler Prins is a Dutch encyclopedia, founded by the Dutch poet and clergyman Anthony Winkler Prins , which ran through 9 editions; the first, issued in 16 volumes from 1870 to 1882, and the last , numbering 26 volumes, from 1990 to 1993...
  
  (1870–1882; 2nd ed. 1884-1888)
• Oosthoek's Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie (1916–1923; 7th ed. 1976-1981)
• Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie
  Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie
  The Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie is a Dutch-language encyclopaedia based on the French Grand Larousse encyclopédique, which appeared from 1971 to 1979 in 25 volumes. The project of publisher Heideland-Orbis was larger in scope than its example, as well as the then existent Dutch...
  
  (1971–1979)
• Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie
  Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie
  The Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie is a Dutch encyclopedia which treats subjects in 5000 large and comprehensive articles with a clear accent on the social sciences...
  
  (1974–1980)
• Dutch Wikipedia
  Dutch Wikipedia
  The Dutch Wikipedia is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. As of November 2011, the Dutch Wikipedia is the fourth-largest Wikipedia edition, with over articles.-History:...
  
   (Nederlandstalige Wikipedia)
• Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie
  Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie
  The Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie , is a Dutch language encyclopaedia in ten volumes of which the first volume appeared in 1946 and the last part, the alphabetical lexicon, in 1952. It was published in Amsterdam under the redaction of Prof. Dr H. J. Pos, Prof. Dr J. M...
  
  (abbr. E.N.S.I.E., "First Dutch Systematically Arranged Encyclopaedia")

English

Encyclopedias written in English (A-Z order).

• Academic American Encyclopedia
  Academic American Encyclopedia
  Academic American Encyclopedia is a 21-volume general English-language encyclopedia published in 1980. It was first produced by Arête Publishing, the American subsidiary of the Dutch publishing company VNU ....
  
  
• Banglapedia
  Banglapedia
  Banglapedia, or the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia. It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online, in both Bangla and English. The print version comprises ten 500-page volumes...
  
  , the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
  , available in English and Bengali
  Bengali language
  Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
  
  
• Britannica Junior
  Encyclopædia Britannica
  The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...
  
  
• Book of Knowledge
  The Children's Encyclopedia
  The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopædia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press of London. It was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S...
  
  
• The Children's Encyclopedia
  The Children's Encyclopedia
  The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopædia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press of London. It was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S...
  
  
• Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland: a one volume encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
  Columbia Encyclopedia
  The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1935, and continuing its important relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; the current edition is...
  
  : a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press
  Columbia University Press
  Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, social work, sociology,...
  
  
• Cambridge Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
  
  
• Collier's Encyclopedia
  Collier's Encyclopedia
  P.F. Collier & Son Company published Collier's New Encyclopedia from 1902–1929, initially in 16 volumes and later in 10 volumes.Collier's 11 volume National Encyclopedia replaced Collier's New Encyclopedia....
  
  (1951–1998)
• Compton's Encyclopedia
  Compton's Encyclopedia
  Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is a home and school encyclopedia first published in 1922 as "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia". The word "Pictured" was removed from the title with the 1968 edition. The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica.Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia...
  
  : 26 volume encyclopedia
• Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a 13-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages published by the American Council of Learned Societies between 1982 and 1989. It was first conceived and started in 1975 with American medieval historian Joseph Strayer of Princeton University as editor-in-chief...
  
  (1982–1989)
• Encyclopedia Americana
  Encyclopedia Americana
  Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic....
  
  
• Encyclopædia Biblica: published in 1899.
• Encyclopædia Britannica
  Encyclopædia Britannica
  The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...
  
  See also the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
  Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
  Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite is an encyclopædia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., available on DVD.-Contents:...
  
  , available on DVD
• Encyclopædia Iranica
  Encyclopædia Iranica
  Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times...
  
  : history and contemporary topics related to Iranian peoples
  Iranian peoples
  The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...
  
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• Encyclopedia of Associations, also available online as Associations Unlimited.
• Encyclopaedia of Wales, one volume, also available in Welsh.
• English Wikipedia
  English Wikipedia
  The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next...
  
   (2001)
• Funk & Wagnalls
• Global Encyclopedia a Grolier publication during the 1980s.
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
• New American Cyclopedia
  New American Cyclopedia
  The New American Cyclopedia was a 16-volume encyclopedia created and published by D. Appleton & Company of New York over the years 1857 to 1866. Its primary editors were George Ripley and Charles A. Dana....
  
  (1857–66)
• New American Desk Encyclopedia: Small paperback encyclopedia
• New International Encyclopaedia
  New International Encyclopedia
  The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.-History:...
  
  (1902–1927)
• The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
  The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
  The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge is an early 20th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood, first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.-Description:...
  
  : 1900
• Oracle Encyclopædia
  Oracle Encyclopædia
  The Oracle Encyclopædia is a five-volume general encyclopedia. It was published in 1895 in London by George Newnes and edited by R. W. Egerton Eastwick....
  
  : a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895
• Pears Cyclopaedia
  Pears Cyclopaedia
  Pears Cyclopaedia is a one volume encyclopaedia published in the United Kingdom. Pears Soap launched Pears Shilling Cyclopaedia in December 1897....
  
  : a one-volume encyclopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom
• The Penguin Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia published by the Penguin Group
  Penguin Group
  The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...
  
  
• The Poets' Encyclopedia
  The Poets' Encyclopedia
  The Poets' Encyclopedia is an English language poetical anthology, summarizes the literary, art and music worlds of New York City in the 1970s. 225 poets, artists, musicians and novelists transform the world's basic knowledge. Imagination trumps fact...
  
  
• Random House Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Random House
  Random House
  Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
  
  
• World Book Encyclopedia
  World Book Encyclopedia
  The World Book Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia published in the United States. It is self-described as "the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world." The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, and...
  
  World Book is the world's best selling print encyclopedia

Esperanto

Encyclopedias written in Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

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• Enciklopedio de Esperanto: two-volume encyclopedia about Esperanto issues (Budapest 1934); reprint in one volume, without the illustrations (1986)
• Esperanto en perspektivo: encyclopedic handbook about Esperanto issues (Rotterdam and London 1974)
• Esperanto Wikipedia
  Esperanto Wikipedia
  The Esperanto Wikipedia is the Esperanto edition of Wikipedia, which started in December 2001 as the eleventh edition of Wikipedia...
  
   (2001)

Estonian

Encyclopedias written in Estonian

Estonian language

Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...

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• Eesti Üleüldise teaduse raamat ehk encyklopädia konversationi-lexikon
  Eesti Üleüldise teaduse raamat ehk encyklopädia konversationi-lexikon
  Eesti Üleüldise teaduse raamat ehk encyklopädia konversationi-lexikon is an Estonian encyclopedia, written by Karl August Hermann between 1900 and 1906. Only two volumes were published before Hermann died in 1909....
  
  by Karl August Hermann (1900–1906)
• Eesti Entsüklopeedia (1932–1937)
• Eesti nõukogude entsüklopeedia (1968–1976)
• ENEKE (1982–1986)
• Eesti nõukogude entsüklopeedia (ENE) (1985–1990) / Eesti entsüklopeedia (EE) (1990–2006)
• Estonian Wikipedia
  Estonian Wikipedia
  The Estonian Wikipedia is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 July 2002. On January 3, 2011 it had 81,064 articles. On December 7, 2008 Estonian Wikipedian Andres Luure was one of fifteen individuals recognized for volunteerism in Estonia for 2008. As of , it...
  
   (2002)
• Estonica
  Estonica
  Estonica is a comprehensive encyclopædia on topics relating to Estonia, particularly the culture and History of Estonia.The project has been principally developed by Estonian Institute and Inspiral Network...
  
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• TEA entsüklopeedia (2008)

Finnish

Encyclopedias written in Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

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• Tietosanakirja
  Tietosanakirja
  The , published in 11 volumes from 1909 to 1922, was the first Finnish language encyclopedia. It was published by Tietosanakirja-Osakeyhtiö, a joint effort between Otava and WSOY...
  
  (1909–1922)
• Pieni tietosanakirja
  Pieni tietosanakirja
  Pieni tietosanakirja , published by Otava in four volumes, was the second Finnish-language encyclopedia...
  
  (1925–1928)
• Iso tietosanakirja (1931–1958)
• Otavan iso tietosanakirja – Encyclopedia Fennica (1960–1965)
• Facta (1969–1974)
• Spectrum Tietokeskus (1976–1987)
• Factum (2003–2005)
• Finnish Wikipedia
  Finnish Wikipedia
  The Finnish Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language . By article count, it is the 16th largest Wikipedia with about articles as of...
  
   (Suomenkielinen Wikipedia)

French

Encyclopedias written in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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• Encyclopédie
  Encyclopédie
  Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It was edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
  
  (1751–1772)
• Encyclopédie Méthodique
  Encyclopédie Méthodique
  The Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières is a roughly 210 to 216 volumes encyclopedia that was published between 1782 and 1832 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter´s wife, Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse...
  
  (Panckoucke
  Charles-Joseph Panckoucke
  Charles-Joseph Panckoucke was a French writer and publisher. He was responsible for numerous influential publications of the era, including the literary journal Mercure de France and the Encyclopédie Méthodique, a successor to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot.Panckoucke was born in the city of...
  
  ) 1782–1832
• Encyclopédie nouvelle
  Encyclopédie nouvelle
  The Encyclopédie nouvelle, ou dictionnaire philosophique, scientifique, littéraire et industriel, offrant le tableau des connaissances humaines au XIXe siècle was a French encyclopedia founded by Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud and published in installments from 1834 through 1841...
  
  (Pierre Leroux
  Pierre Leroux
  Pierre Henri Leroux , French philosopher and political economist, was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan.- Life :...
  
   and Jean Reynaud
  Jean Reynaud
  Jean Reynaud was a French socialist philosopher.He was a member of the Saint-Simonian community. He was a co-founder of the Encyclopédie nouvelle.-External links:* -Bibliography:...
  
  ) 1839–1840
• Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse
  Pierre Larousse
  Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.-Early life:Pierre Larousse was born in Toucy, where...
  
   (17 volumes 1866–1877) —really an encyclopedia despite its name
• La Grande Encyclopédie
  La Grande Encyclopédie
  La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts is a 31-volume encyclopedia published in France from 1886 to 1902 by H...
  
  , general secretaries of the editorial board: Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot
  André Berthelot
  André Berthelot was the son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and a député of the Seine.He was secretary-general of the Grande Encyclopédie starting with the fourth volume....
  
   (31 volumes 1886–1902)
• Nouveau Larousse illustré
  Nouveau Larousse illustré
  The Nouveau Larousse illustré was an illustrated French language encyclopedia published by Larousse between 1897-1904, in 7 volumes and a supplement...
  
  (1897–1904)
• Grand Larousse encyclopédique
  Grand Larousse encyclopédique
  The Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes is a French encyclopedic dictionary published by Larousse, published in volumes between February 1960 and August 1964, with two later supplements....
  
  (1960–1964)
• Encyclopædia Universalis
  Encyclopædia Universalis
  The Encyclopædia Universalis is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the Encyclopædia Universalis are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of full-time editors and expert contributors...
  
  (1968–....)
• Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse
  Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Larousse
  Following the work of Pierre Larousse on the Grand dictionnaire Universel, this ten-volume dictionary was published between 1982 and 1985 by éditions Larousse. It is an encyclopedia and a dictionary merged in a single alphabetical listing...
  
  
• Claude Augé Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré
• Encyclopædia Britannica
  Encyclopædia Britannica
  The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...
  
  translated into French
• French Wikipedia
  French Wikipedia
  The French Wikipedia is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelt Wikipédia. This edition was started in March 2001, and has about articles as of , making it the third-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-language and German-language editions...
  
   (Wikipédia francophone)

Dictionnaires généraux, universels, encyclopédiques, et autres… A bibliography of French encyclopedias up to Larousse.

Georgian

Encyclopedias written in Georgian

Georgian language

Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...

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• Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
  Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tblissi from 1965. The encyclopedia includes 11 alphabetic volumes and a 12th exclusively dedicated to the Georgian SSR, printed in both Georgian and Russian.The main editor was Irakli...
  
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German

Encyclopedias written in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon
  Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon
  The Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste is a 68-volume German encyclopedia published by Johann Heinrich Zedler between 1731 and 1754...
  
  (1751–1754)
• Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
  Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
  The Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten , Leipzig, 1796 to 1808, 8vo, 6 vols., 2,762 pages, was an encyclopedia edited by Dr Renatus Gotthelf Löbel, who intended to supersede Johann Hübner, and included geography, history, and in part biography, besides...
  
  (1796–1808; see Brockhaus)
• Oekonomische Encyklopädie
  Oekonomische Encyklopädie
  The Oekonomische Encyklopädie was a German encyclopedia started by Johann Georg Krünitz. It appeared in 242 volumes between 1773 and 1858. Each volume has about 600-800 pages, giving a total of about 170,000 pages....
  
   (General System of State, City, Home and Agriculture) Editor Johann Georg Krünitz
  Johann Georg Krünitz
  Johann Georg Krünitz was a German encyclopedist who started the 242-volume Oekonomische Encyklopädie and during his lifetime managed to complete its first 72 volumes.-Life:...
  
   (242 Volumes 1773–1858)
• Brockhaus (eds. 1–14 by 1900)
• Pierers Universal-Lexikon (1824–1836; 7th ed. 1888–1893)
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
  Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
  Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions, and several titles, from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia....
  
  (1839–1855; 5th ed. 1893–1897)
• Herders Konversations-Lexikon (1854–1857; 2nd ed. 1875–1879)
• German Wikipedia
  German Wikipedia
  The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia.Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest and, with over articles, the second-largest edition of Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia...
  
   (Deutsche Wikipedia)

Greek

Encyclopedias written in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

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• Suda
  Suda
  The Suda or Souda is a massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Suidas. It is an encyclopedic lexicon, written in Greek, with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often...
  
   (Historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world), (10th century)
• Helios (Νεώτερον Εγκυκλοπαιδικόν Λεξικόν, Ήλιος), (1950)
• Papyrus - Larousse – Britannica (Πάπυρος - Λαρούς - Μπριτάννικα) (1975–2004)
• Greek Wikipedia
  Greek Wikipedia
  The Greek Wikipedia is the Greek language edition of Wikipedia. Started on December 1, 2002, this edition has, as of March 2011, over 60,000 articles and is currently the 44th largest Wikipedia by article count.As of 8 March 2009, there are 34858 registered users, 17 of which are...
  
   (Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια)

Gujarati

Encyclopedias written in Gujarati

Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

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• "Bhagavadgomandal
  Bhagavadgomandal
  Bhagavadgomandal is a Gujarati Encyclopedia and Gujarati to Gujarati dictionary.Conceived by King Bhagvatsingh of Gondal in 1928, this dictionary spreads over 9500 pages in 9 volumes and includes the meaning and description of over a 281,377 words.-History:The motivation behind this Gujarati...
  
  " - Completed around by Bhagvatsingh of Gondal
  Bhagvatsingh of Gondal
  Maharaja Bhagvatsingh Sahib was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, in whose reign the state was raised to 11-gun salute state...
  
   with the help of his education minister Chandulal Patel.
• Gujarati Vishwakosh
  Gujarati Vishwakosh
  Gujarati Vishwakosh is an encyclopedia in Gujarati, one of the Indian official languages. This can be considered as a first full encyclopedia in Gujarati language...
  
   (1985–2009)

Hebrew

Encyclopedias written in Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

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• Encyclopaedia Hebraica
  Encyclopaedia Hebraica
  The Encyclopaedia Hebraica is a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Hebrew language that was published in the latter half of the 20th century.-History:...
  
  
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
• Hebrew Wikipedia
  Hebrew Wikipedia
  Hebrew Wikipedia is the Hebrew edition of Wikipedia. This edition began in July 2003 and has about articles as of .-Milestones:* July 8, 2003: The Hebrew edition of Wikipedia was launched....
  
  

Hindi

Encyclopedias written in Hindi.

• Encyclopædia Britannica in Hindi (इनसाक्लोपिडिया ब्रिटानिका)
• Hindi Wikipedia
  Hindi Wikipedia
  Hindi Wikipedia is the Hindi language edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. As of September 5, 2011 it had 100,000 articles. In July 2010, Google announced that they had begun working with Hindi Wikipedians to translate English language articles into Hindi and had so far translated...
  
  
• CDAC Hindi Vishvakosh(सीडैक हिन्दी विश्वकोश)

Hungarian

Encyclopedias written in Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

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• Pallas Nagy Lexikona 1893–1900
• Révai Nagy Lexikona 1911–1935
• Tolnai Világlexikona 1912-1918, 1926–1930
• A Napkelet Lexikona 1927
• Uj Idők Lexikona 1936–1942
• Új Magyar Lexikon 1961–1972
• Magyar Nagylexikon 1993–2004
• Britannica Hungarica Világenciklopédia 1994–2001
• Pannon Enciklopédia
• Hungarian Wikipedia
  Hungarian Wikipedia
  The Hungarian Wikipedia is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on July 8, 2003, this version reached the 200,000 article milestone in September 2011.-History:...
  
   2003-

Icelandic

Encyclopedias written in Icelandic

Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...

• Íslenska alfræðiorðabókin A-Ö

Italian

Encyclopedias written in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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• Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti
  Enciclopedia Italiana
  The Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti , is an Italian encyclopedia, generally regarded as the most authoritative of that language...
  
  (1929–1960)
• Dizionario enciclopedico italiano (1955-)
• Italian Wikipedia
  Italian Wikipedia
  The Italian Wikipedia is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of 2011 it has over articles and more than registered accounts...
  
   (Wikipedia in italiano)

Japanese

Encyclopedias written in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

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Kazakh

Encyclopedias translated into Kazakh

Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

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• Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian and in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 .-Editions:There were three editions...
  
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Korean

Encyclopedias written in Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

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• Doosan Encyclopedia
  Doosan Encyclopedia
  Doosan Encyclopedia is a Korean language encyclopedia published by Doosan Donga . The encyclopedia is based on the Dong-A Color Encyclopedia , which comprises 30 volumes and began to be published in 1982 by Dong-A Publishing...
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Korean Culture
  Encyclopedia of Korean Culture
  Encyclopedia of Korean Language is a Korean language encyclopedia published by the Academy of Korean Studies and DongBang Media Co. In 2001, the digital edition EncyKorea was published on CD-ROM and DVD...
  
  
• Jibong yuseol
  Jibong yuseol
  Jibong yuseol is the first Korean encyclopedia published in 1614 during the reigns of King Gwanghaegun. The author, Yi Su-gwang was a prominent silhak scholar and a military officer of the mid Joseon period of Korea...
  
  
• Korean Wikipedia
  Korean Wikipedia
  The Korean Wikipedia ) is the Korean language edition of the Wikipedia. It was founded in October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005. As of November 8 2011, it has 180,569 articles and is the 20th largest Wikipedia.-History:...
  
  

Kurdish

Encyclopedias written in Kurdish

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

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• Kurdistanica (1992).

Latin

Encyclopedias written in Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

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• Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro
  Marcus Terentius Varro
  Marcus Terentius Varro was an ancient Roman scholar and writer. He is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus.-Biography:...
  
  
• Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder
  Pliny the Elder
  Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
  
  
• Etymologiae
  Etymologiae
  Etymologiae is an encyclopedia compiled by Isidore of Seville towards the end of his life. It forms a bridge between a condensed epitome of classical learning at the close of Late Antiquity and the inheritance received, in large part through Isidore's work, by the early Middle Ages...
  
   of Isidore of Seville
  Isidore of Seville
  Saint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...
  
  
• Speculum Maius of Vincent of Beauvais
  Vincent of Beauvais
  The Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was used in the Middle Ages.-Early life:...
  
  
• De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomeus Anglicus
• Liber de natura rerum of Thomas of Cantimpré
  Thomas of Cantimpré
  Thomas of Cantimpré was a Roman Catholic medieval writer, preacher, and theologian.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fons memorabilium universi
  Fons memorabilium universi
  Fons memorabilium universi is an early encyclopedia, written in Latin by the Italian humanist Domenico Bandini of Arezzo Fons memorabilium universi ("Fountain of the Memorable Universe") is an early encyclopedia, written in Latin by the Italian humanist Domenico Bandini of Arezzo Fons memorabilium...
  
   of Domenico Bandini of Arezzo
• Latin Wikipedia
  Latin Wikipedia
  The Latin Wikipedia is the Latin language edition of Wikipedia. As of , it has about articles. While all primary content is in Latin, in discussions modern languages such as English, French, German or Spanish are allowed and often used, since many users find this easier.Professional latinists...
  
  

Leonese

Encyclopedias written in Leonese

Leonese language

The Leonese language is the endonym term used to refer to all vernacular Romance dialects of the Astur-Leonese linguistic group in the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora; Astur-Leonese also includes the dialects...

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• Llionpedia (2009)

Lithuanian

Encyclopedias written in Lithuanian

Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

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Macedonian

Encyclopedias written in Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

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• Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  The Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was published by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute under the direction of Miroslav Krleža...
  
   (Macedonian edition - the very first encyclopedia published in Macedonian)
• Macedonian Wikipedia
  Macedonian Wikipedia
  The Macedonian Wikipedia is the Macedonian-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.This edition was started in September 2003 and has more than 50,186 articles, 30,666 registered users, 17 administrators and 3 bureaucrats as of October 2, 2011. It passed the...
  
   (Википедија)

Malayalam

Encyclopedias written in Malayalam

Malayalam language

Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

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• Srava Vijyana Kosham
  Sarvavijnanakosam
  Sarvavijnanakosam, known in English as the Malayalam Encyclopaedia, is a general encyclopedia in the Malayalam language. It is intended to be a "a compendium of world knowledge", covering over 32,000 topics. The first volume was published in 1972, and currently 15 of the 20 volumes have been...
  
  
• Viswa Sahitya Vijnanakosam
  Viswasahityavijnanakosam
  Viswasahityavijnanakosam is an encyclopedia of world literature in the Malayalam language. It is intended "to give an up-to-date picture of world literature." Currently 7 of the 10 volumes have been published. It is published by the State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications ....
  
  
• Puranic Encyclopedia Vettom Mani Published By DC Books
• Malayalam Britannica
  Malayalam Britannica
  Malayalam Britannica is the popular but false name attached to a reference work in the Malayalam language, named Malayalam Encyclopedia, which is by and large a translation of the Britannica Concise Encyclopædia into Malayalam, the language spoken mainly in Kerala, a southern state of India.While...
  
  
• Malayalam Wikipedia
  Malayalam Wikipedia
  The Malayalam Wikipedia is the Malayalam language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on December 21, 2002. The project is the leading Wikipedia among other South East Asian language Wikipedias in various quality matrices...
  
  

Moldavian

Encyclopedias translated into Moldavian.

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian and in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 .-Editions:There were three editions...
  
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Nepali

Encyclopedias written in Nepali

Nepali language

Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...

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• http://www.getcited.org/pub/103267068 (1994)

Norwegian

Encyclopedias written in Norwegian

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

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• Store norske leksikon
  Store norske leksikon
  Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is currently the second most comprehensive contemporary Norwegian language encyclopedia. The SNL was created in 1978 when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. The name...
  
  
• Caplex
• Norwegian Wikipedia
  Norwegian Wikipedia
  There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk. The first site, the original Norwegian Wikipedia, launched on November 26, 2001, and originally allowed articles to be written in any written Norwegian...
  
  

Persian

Encyclopedias written in Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

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• Treasure Box of Knowledge (1993)
• Encyclopedia of Sophistication (2003)
• Persian Wikipedia
  Persian Wikipedia
  The Persian Wikipedia is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. It passed 1,000 articles on December 16, 2004, 10,000 articles on February 18, 2006 and 100,000 articles on August 25, 2010....
  
  (2004)
• The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music
  The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music
  The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music was published in Tehran by Mehran Poor Mandan in the year 2000....
  
  (2000)
• Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature
  Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature
  The Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature is a Persian language encyclopaedia, published in Tehran.-External links:*...
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam
  • Encyclopedia of Islam World
• The Big Islamic Encyclopedia

Loghatnameh Dehkhoda

• The Persian Encyclopedia
  The Persian Encyclopedia
  The Persian Encyclopedia is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in the Persian language. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes....
  
  

Polish

Encyclopedias written in Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

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• Encyklopedia Polski
  Encyklopedia Polski
  Encyklopedia Polski is a Polish-language encyclopedia of Polish history and culture.-History:Encyklopedia Polski is a one-volume Polish-language encyclopedia of Polish history and culture...
  
  (Encyclopedia of Poland), 1996
• Great Universal Encyclopedia of PWN (Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN)
  Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN
  Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN was, until 2005, the largest Polish encyclopedia ever written. It was published between 1962 and 1970 by Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe in Warsaw...
  
   - Published by PWN (1962–1970) - 12 volumes
• Great Encyclopedia of PWN (Wielka Encyklopedia PWN)
  Wielka Encyklopedia PWN
  Wielka Encyklopedia PWN is a universal encyclopedia in Polish, published by Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe in Warsaw, between 2001 and 2005....
  
   - Published by PWN (2001–2005) - 30 volumes
• Internet PWN Encyclopedia (Internetowa encyklopedia PWN), also referred to as 'Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN', is a free Internet Encyclopedia published by PWN
• Polish Wikipedia
  Polish Wikipedia
  Polish Wikipedia is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. The ninth-oldest edition of Wikipedia, it was started on September 26, 2001. With about articles, it is the seventh-largest Wikipedia edition, after the English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish...
  
  

Portuguese

Encyclopedias written in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

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• Biblioteca Universal - Published by Texto Editora (paper, multimedia and Online) http://www.universal.pt/
• Diciopédia - Published by Porto Editora (Multimedia and Online) http://www.diciopedia.pt/
• Infopédia - Published by Porto Editora (Online) http://www.infopedia.pt/
• Barsa (encyclopedia) - http://brasil.planetasaber.com/Novelty/
• Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira
  Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira
  Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira is a Portuguese 40-volume encyclopedia, published between 1936 and 1960 by Editorial Enciclopédia....
  
  (since 1936) - 40 Volumes and later supplements
• Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura - Published by Editorial Verbo (1963–1995) - 22 volumes
• Enciclopédia Verbo Edição Século XXI - Published by Editorial Verbo (since 1998) - 29 volumes

Romanian

Encyclopedias written in Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

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• Enciclopedia Română (1899–1904)
• Enciclopedia Cugetarea (1940, 1999)
• Lexiconul Tehnic Român (1948–1968)
• Dicţionar enciclopedic român (1962–1966)
• Romanian Wikipedia
  Romanian Wikipedia
  Romanian Wikipedia is the Romanian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started in July 2003, this edition has about 150,000 articles and is the 19th largest Wikipedia edition...
  
  

Russian

Encyclopedias written in Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

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• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
  Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
  The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary is, in its scope and style, the Russian counterpart to the Encyclopædia Britannica. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps...
  
  (Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, 1890–1906)
• Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation
  Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation
  The Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is a collection of biographies and filmographies of the masters of Russian and Soviet animation. It was released at the 12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film in March 2007, and its general release happened on March 11...
  
  (Энциклопедия отечественной мультипликации)
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian and in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 .-Editions:There were three editions...
  
  (Большая Советская энциклопедия, БСЭ)
• Great Russian Encyclopedia
  Great Russian Encyclopedia
  The Great Russian Encyclopedia is a new universal Russian encyclopedia in 30 volumes, published since 2004 by Bolšaja Rossijskaja Enciklopedija publisher. It is released under the auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences after 2002 Vladimir Putin's presidential decree № 1156.The chief editor...
  
  (Большая Российская энциклопедия, БРЭ)
• Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary
  Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary
  Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary is an omnibus encyclopedic dictionary published by Sovetskaya entsiklopediya . The fourth edition contains about 80,000 entries, 550 black-and-white pictures and schemes and 350 maps....
  
  (Советский Энциклопедический Словарь, СЭС)
• Russian Wikipedia
  Russian Wikipedia
  The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It has over articles. It was founded on 20 May 2001. By May 2008 it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and in February 2011 it ranked 8th. It surpassed 750,000 articles in August 2011...
  
   (Русская Википедия)

Serbian

Encyclopedias written in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

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• Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
  The Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was published by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute under the direction of Miroslav Krleža...
  
   (1955–1971) (Енциклопедија Југославије)
• General Encyclopedia of the Yugoslavian Lexicographical Institute (Opća enciklopedija Jugoslavenskog leksikografskog zavoda)
• Serbian Wikipedia
  Serbian Wikipedia
  The Serbian Wikipedia is the Serbian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It was created on February 16, 2003. This language version exceeded 100,000 articles on November 20, 2009...
  
   (Википедија на српском језику)
• Vojna Enciklopedija (Војна Енциклопедија - Military Encyclopedia)
• Encyclopædia Britannica
  Encyclopædia Britannica
  The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...
  
   (concise edition, Serbian translation)
• Srpska Porodična Enciklopedija (Српска Породична Енциклопедија - Serbian Family Encyclopedia)
• Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija (1985) (Мала Просветина Енциклопедија - Prosveta's Small Encyclopedia)

Sinhalese

Encyclopedia written in Sinhala.

• Sinhalese Encyclopaedia (සිංහල විශ්වකෝෂය)

Slovene

Encyclopedias written in Slovene.

• Enciklopedija Slovenije
  Enciklopedija Slovenije
  The Encyclopedia of Slovenia is a Slovene-language encyclopedia that contains topics related to Slovenia. It was published from 1987 to 2002 in 16 volumes by Mladinska knjiga in cooperation with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts....
  
  
• Slovene Wikipedia
  Slovene Wikipedia
  The Slovene Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Slovene language. It has been active since February 26, 2002. In July 2007, it has reached 50,000 articles...
  
   (slovenska Wikipedija)

Spanish

Encyclopedias written in Spanish.

• Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa
• Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Ciencias y Artes: Barcelona, Montaner y Simón, 1887–1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Wonderful and very readable articles, many of them written by known Spanish scholars of the day. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América). See reference at http://www.filosofia.org/enc/eha/eha.htm
• El Nuevo Tesoro de la Juventud
  El Nuevo Tesoro de la Juventud
  El Nuevo Tesoro de la Juventud is a general Spanish-language encyclopedia published by Grolier International, Inc....
  
  , published by Grolier in 20 volumes
• Enciclopedia Encarta
• Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana; the biggest encyclopedia of its time. Also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
• Enciclopedia Labor
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal
  Enciclopedia Libre
  Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.-History:...
  
  also known as Enciclopedia Libre
• Monitor: enciclopedia Salvat para todos, 13 volumes, 1965–70
• Gran enciclopedia planeta, 20 volumes, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004
• Nueva enciclopedia Durvan
• Nueva enciclopedia cumbre, published by Grolier in 14 volumes and available online.
• Enciclopedia Universal Micronet
  Enciclopedia Universal Micronet
  Enciclopedia Universal Micronet is an encyclopedia in Spanish language created in 1995. The 2010 version contains more than 185,000 articles....
  
  
• Gran Enciclopedia de Andalucía
  Gran Enciclopedia de Andalucía
  Gran Enciclopedia de Andalucía is a Spanish encyclopedia focused in Andalusia region. It has 10 volumes, and it was coordinated by José María Javierre and Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel.Junta de Andalucía bought the encyclopedia in 1985....
  
  
• Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa
• Gran Enciclopedia Asturiana
• Gran Enciclopedia Extremeña
• Gran Enciclopedia Gallega
• Spanish Wikipedia
  Spanish Wikipedia
  The Spanish Wikipedia is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. It currently has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006. Currently, it is the 6th largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, having surpassed Polish...
  
   (Wikipedia en español)

Swedish

Encyclopedias written in Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

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• Nordisk familjebok
  Nordisk familjebok
  Nordisk familjebok is a Swedish encyclopedia, published between 1876 and 1957.- History :The first edition was published in 20 volumes between 1876 and 1899. The first edition is known as the "Iðunn edition" because of the picture of Iðunn on the cover...
  
  (1876–1899; 2nd ed. 1904–1926)
• Nordisk familjebok
  Nordisk familjebok
  Nordisk familjebok is a Swedish encyclopedia, published between 1876 and 1957.- History :The first edition was published in 20 volumes between 1876 and 1899. The first edition is known as the "Iðunn edition" because of the picture of Iðunn on the cover...
  
  (editions 2-4 of 20+ volumes each, 1904–1957)
• Svensk Uppslagsbok
  Svensk Uppslagsbok
  Svensk Uppslagsbok is a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1929 and 1955, in two editions.- First edition :The first edition was started in 1929 by Baltiska förlaget AB, but publishing was taken over by Svensk uppslagsbok AB in 1931. This edition consisted of 30 volumes and one supplement...
  
  (2 editions, 31 and 32 volumes, 1929–1955)
• Kunskapens bok (6 editions, 8 or 9 volumes each, 1937–1959)
• Focus
  Focus (encyclopedia)
  Focus is an encyclopedia first published in Swedish in 5 volumes 1958–1960, later extended with additional volumes, republished in several editions, and translated to Danish, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish...
  
  (5 volumes, 1958–1960, introducing a new era of smaller modular encyclopedias, several later editions)
• Bra Böckers Lexikon
  Bra Böckers Lexikon
  Bra Böckers Lexikon is a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1973 and 1996, in four editions with 25 volumes each. The three first editions was sold in more than 400,000 copies. The first edition was published between 1973-81, the second 1974-82, the third 1983-90 and the fourth 1991-96...
  
  (4 editions of 25 volumes each, 1973–1995)
• Bonniers familjelexikon (20 volumes, 1983–1986)
• Nationalencyklopedin
  Nationalencyklopedin
  Nationalencyklopedin is the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990...
  
  (20 volumes, 1989–1996)
• Lexikon 2000 (25 volumes, 1995)
• Susning.nu
  Susning.nu
  Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit...
  
   (a Swedish online wiki started in 2001, anyone-to-edit encyclopedia until 2004, shut down in 2009)
• Swedish Wikipedia
  Swedish Wikipedia
  The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia...
  
   (Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia)
• Svenska uppslagsverk, a comprehensive bibliography maintained by collector Christofer Psilander

Tamil

Encyclopedia written in Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

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• Encyclopædia Britannica (28000 articles. A three-volume encyclopaedia of selected articles from the Englsih version and special articles on Tamil culture and history. In Tamil பிரிட்டானிக்கா தகவல் களஞ்சியம்)
• Islamic Encyclopaedia (written by Abdul Raheem. In Tamil இஸ்லாமியக் கலைக்களஞ்சியம்)
• Encyclopaedia of Herbs (மூலிகைக் கலைக்களஞ்சியம்)

Turkmen

Encyclopedia translated into Turkmen.

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian and in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 .-Editions:There were three editions...
  
  

Urdu

Encyclopedias written in Urdu

• Mohazzabul Lughat India
  Mohazzabul Lughat India
  Mohazzabul Lughat is an Urdu Language Encyclopedia.Padam Shree Syed Mohammed Meerza Saheb, “Mohazzab Lucknowi” the renowned elegiac poet and celebrated figure in Urdu literature compiled the “Mohazzab-ul-Lugat “ in fourteen volumes....
  
  
• Shahkar Islami Encyclopedia
• Shahkar Encyclopedia Pakistan
• Shahkar Encyclopedia Falakiat (Encyclopedia Astronomy)
• Shahkar Encyclopedia Ijadat (Encyclopedia Inventions)

Ukrainian

Encyclopedias written in Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

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• Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  The Encyclopedia of Ukraine is an English language, free, online encyclopedia covering wide range of issueson Ukraine, including its history, people, geography, economy, culture etc....
  
  (Енциклопедія українознавства)
• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
  Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
  Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia - was a multi purpose Encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR.Following the publication of the first volume of the Ukrainian General Encyclopedia in Lviv, Ukraine the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia was commissioned by Mykola Skrypnyk...
  
  (Українська радянська енциклопедія)
• Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary (Універсальний словник-енциклопедія, 1999, last updated in 2006)
• Ukrainian Wikipedia
  Ukrainian Wikipedia
  The Ukrainian Wikipedia is the Ukrainian language edition of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. On October 1, 2005, it reached the 20,000-article mark and is currently the...
  
   (Українська Вікіпедія)

Vietnamese

Encyclopedias written in Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...

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• Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam
  Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam
  Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam is a state-sponsored encyclopedia that was published in 2005. It also is the first state encyclopedia of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam...
  
  

Welsh

Encyclopedias written in Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

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• Gwyddoniadur Cymru yr Academi Gymreig (also in English
  Encyclopædia of Wales
  The Encyclopaedia of Wales is a single-volume-publication encyclopaedia on Wales. The English-language and Welsh-language editions were published simultaneously; the Welsh-language edition is titled Gwyddoniadur Cymru....
  
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