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Bulgarians (2440 words) |
 | The religious beliefs of The Old Bulgarians was in the existence of a solitary, extraordinary force. |
 | According to the old Bulgarians the things that were strongest with the force were the blood, the human head, and the sword, the horsetail and so on. |
 | The Byzantines met the settlement of the Old Bulgarians in the Ongul with animosity, but for a long period of time Constantine IV didn't undertake some drastic actions against Asparuh, because he was involved in a heavy struggle with the Arabians. |
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Old Church Slavonic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1745 words) |
 | Old Church Slavonic (also called Old Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, and inaccurately Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavonic dialect of Thessaloniki by 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. |
 | Old Church Slavonic is evidenced by a relatively small body of manuscripts, written for the most part, in the late 10th and the early 11th century. |
 | The designation Old Bulgarian (German Altbulgarisch) was introduced in the 19th century by reputable linguists as August Schleicher, Martin Hattala and Leopold Geitler who noticed that the linguistic features of the first Slavic literary works are the same as those of the Bulgarian language. |