The tradition of Cyril and Methodius, and all the materials translated into or originally written in Old Church Slavonic and, secondly, it describes a characteristic attitude towards the world, partly religious, partly political and reflected also in the sphere of culture which determined the specific and widespread domain of the Slavs in the Christian world. More…

Kliment or Clement and the rest of the exiles, following the Danube via Singidunum (Belgrade) reached Pliska and the court of the Bulgarian Prince Boris-Michael. Having long wished for his own clerical elite, the Prince gave the exhausted newcomers a warm welcome. More…

After Kliment of Ohrid , St Naum was the most consistent and worthy of the pupils of the Salonica ‘s brothers Cyril and Methodius, a personality who devoted his whole being to the work of establishing Slav literacy and who was one of the founders of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. More...

For two years the Macedonian state of the four brothers had been independent of Byzantium. With the Tzimisces' victory over Svyatoslav and the extension of Byzantine borders as far as Dalmatia, the Macedonian state could be subordinated to the supreme authority of Constantinople in 971, and Bulgaria and Serbia were transformed into Byzantine provinces. More...

King Marko, or Krali Marko the title under which his legend is widely spread, is far more famous then any other ruler in Balkans in the period of the Ottoman invasion in the Balkans. His popularity, to some extend owns to the fact that he received the title “young king” and co-ruler to his father at the age of 16, thus performing important state duties and responsibilities. More…