Great Aragonese Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (Great Aragonese Encyclopedia, commonly abbreviated GEA) is a Spanish language
Aragon
themed encyclopedia
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It was first published in 1981, under the direction of Eloy Fernández Clemente. In 1999, Prensa Diaria Aragonesa SA, the editor of the newspaper El Periódico de Aragón 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 is now offered free on the Internet due to the support of the Government of Aragon.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Aragon
Aragon
Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...
themed encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
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It was first published in 1981, under the direction of Eloy Fernández Clemente. In 1999, Prensa Diaria Aragonesa SA, the editor of the newspaper El Periódico de Aragón 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 is now offered free on the Internet due to the support of the Government of Aragon.
External links
- Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa OnLine home page.