History of Zamenhof-Esperanto objects and their registration
The first Zamenhof-Esperanto object was the ship Esperanto, constructed and launched in Spain in 1896, nine years after the language's birth. The 1934 Encyclopedia of Esperanto listed approximately 50 towns and cities in which Esperanto or Zamenhof have been honored. In 1997, a German Esperantist, Hugo Röllinger, published a book titled Monumente pri Esperanto – ilustrita dokumentaro pri 1044 Zamenhof/Esperanto-objektoj en 54 landoj ("Monumentally about Esperanto – an illustrated documentary of 1,044 Zamenhof-Esperanto objects in 54 countries") and until his death in 2001 he listed a total of 1,260 such objects.[1] It is he who coined the acronymZEO. Currently, Robert Kamiński of Poland is the person charged with the registration of ZEOs by the Universal Esperanto Association.[2]
Notable Zamenhof-Esperanto objects
Tallest
At 12 meters, the Zamenhof monument in Sabadell, Spain, dating from 1989
^"Gazetaraj Komunikoj N-ro 140 (2001-11-22): Raymond Boré daŭrigas la laboron de Röllinger". Universal Esperanto Association. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
^"Zamenhof/Esperanto-objektoj (ZEO-j)". Universala Esperanto Asocio. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
External links
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List of ZEOs recorded in Röllinger's 1997 book
List and images of postal stamps on the topic of Esperanto
Information about ships named after Esperanto and Zamenhof