Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia

The Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia (Template:Lang-sh) was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was published by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute (Zagreb) under the direction of Miroslav Krleža. It is viewed as having "great value" for a person with an interest in the history and culture of Yugoslavia and its successor states.

Volumes

First edition

Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, 1st edition

The first edition consists of 8 volumes, issued from 1955 to 1971. It was printed in 30,000 copies.

	Article span	Year of publishing	Number of pages
1	A-Bosk	1955	708
2	Bosna-Dio	1956	716
3	Dip-Hiđ	1958	686
4	Hil-Jugos	1960	651
5	Jugos-Mak	1962	690
6	Maklj-Put	1965	562
7	R-Srbija	1968	688
8	Srbija-Ž	1971	654

Second edition

Work on the second edition started in 1980, but was not finished due to the Yugoslav wars. Only 6 of 12 planned volumes appeared.

	Article span	Year of publishing	Number of pages
1	A-Biz	1980	767
2	Bje-Crn	1982	776
3	Crn-Đ	1984	750
4	E-Hrv	1986	748
5	Hrv-Janj	1988	776
6	Jap-Kat	1990	731

The main Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet edition has been translated into 5 additional language-alphabet combinations:

Language / Alphabet	First volume published in	Volumes published
Serbo-Croatian / Cyrillic	1983	2
Slovenian	1983	4
Macedonian	1984	2
Albanian	1984	2
Hungarian	1985	1

The Macedonian and Albanian variants were the first encyclopedias published in the respective languages.

References

• "Enciklopedije i leksikoni". Enciklopedija Jugoslavije IV (in Croatian) (2nd ed.). Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. 1986.