What are the organizational letters on the edge of pages on an encyclopedia called?

Encyclopedias are a thing of the past.

Some books have cutouts in the pages forming an alcove with the letter or title of the section printed inside. That is called a thumb index. Here is a picture of a bible indexed that way:
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