Old Church Slavonic
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Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the Eastern South Slavic subgroup
A page from Codex Zographensis, 10th or 11th century.
Example of the Cyrillic alphabet: excerpt from the manuscript Vidin Miscellany, written in Middle Bulgarian, 1360
A page from the Flowery Triodion (Triod' cvetnaja), a Polish book printed in Kraków in about 1491, one of the oldest printed Byzantine-Slavonic books, National Library of Poland
A page from the Gospel of Miroslav, Serbian medieval manuscript, a 12th-century Byzantine-Slavonic book, National Library of Serbia
First Bulgarian Empire
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The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern and southeastern Central Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after a group of Bulgars,
Old Church Slavonic
…Byzantine theme of Thessalonica. The oldest manuscript is usually thought to be the Kiev Missal. Old Church Slavonic became the official language of the First Bulgarian Empire and played an important role in the history of the Slavic languages serving as a basis and model for later Church Slavonic traditions. Some Eastern…
Part of the Pliska fortress
Khan Krum defeats the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I in the battle of the Varbitsa Pass, Manasses Chronicle
Column fragment with inscription about the victorious campaigns of Khan Malamir
Emperor Simeon I: The Morning Star of Slavonic Literature, painting by Alfons Mucha