World / Macedonia / Ohrid, 1 km from center (Охрид) Coordinates: 41°7'7"N   20°48'21"E

Ohrid, Macedonia

Ohrid, Macedonia



Ohrid is credited as being the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was most probably created by St. Clement of Ohrid (Kliment Ohridski), although recent scholarship has suggested that it was created in the Preslav Literary School in northwestern Bulgaria. Climent combined the Greek alphabet with the Glagolic alphabet that had been created by the brothers St. Cyril and Methodius.

The seat of the historical Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid 1019-1767, the cultural and military centre of the southwestern part of the First Bulgarian Empire since Boris I and the capital of Tsar Samiul (997-1014 CE).
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19 months ago Dimitar   +6
The city with 365 churches.
4 months ago   0
polygon!
18 days ago dragojaivanovskiyahoo.co   -1
EVERYTHING WRITTEN HERE IS LIE AND ONLY LIE. CLEMENT OHRIDSKI (KLIMENT OHRIDSKI) OR IN CIRILIC (KИРИЛИЦА) (КЛИМЕНТ ОХРИДСКИ) WAS MACEDONIAN AND WAS STUDENT OF BROTHERS CYRIL (КИРИЛ) AND METHODIUS (МЕТОДИЈ), WHO WERE ALSO MACEDONIANS AND WROTE THE FIRST SLAVIC AND MACEDONIAN ALPHABET- GLAGOLICA (СЛОВЕНСКА И МАКЕДОНСКА АЗБУКА-ГЛАГОЛИЦА), АND HE CHANGED ТHE GLAGOLICA ALPHABET AND NAMED IT CYRILIC (КИРИЛИЦА), ACCORDING HIS TEACHER CYRIL (КИРИЛ).
АLSO TSAR SAMUIL (ЦАР САМОИЛ) AND HIS EMPIRE (ИМПЕРИЈА) WERE MACEDONIAN AND OHRID ARCHBISHOPRIC (ОХРИДСКА АРХИЕПИСКОПИЈА) WAS MACEDONIAN (MАКЕДОНСКА) NOT BULGARIAN (БУГАРСКА) BUT BULGARIANS HAD
EXARCHATE .
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