On 8th of March at the Hungarian Institute in Zagreb was held ceremonial presentation of Croatian-Hungarian dictionary, achieved with the support of the Hungarian Goverment and published by Croatica publishing house, and at the same time was presented the Hungarian-Croatian dictionary, published four years ago and supported by the Croatian Goverment. The presentation was opened by Csaba Latorcai, deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs from the Prime Minister's Office in Hungary and Tomislav Sokol, deputy State Secretary on behalf of Pavo Barišić, Croatian Minister of Science and Education. Authors and editors introduced the dictionaries to the visitors. The event was attended by Robert Jankovics, MP of the Hungarian national minority, Zoltan Balaž-Piri, president of Council for Hungarian Nation Minority in Zagreb, Mihaly Hepp, a Representative in Parlament of Croatian national minority in Hungary’s, Ivan Gugan, president of the Croatian Self-Government in Hungary, Tolnauer Alexander, president of the Council for national minorities of the Croatian Government and Milan Bošnjak, deputy head of the State Office for Croats abroad.
The long-awaited dictionaries, each containing more than 38,000 entries, are of crucial importance for both Croats in Hungary and Hungarians in Croatia.
