The monument in Kiev MOSCOW July 28 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is marking for the first time in its history the Day of Baptizing of Kievan Rus - a new 'commemorative date' that has been established to commemorate the Grand Duke Vladimir, who adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity as the official religion of the early medieval duchy of ...

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Thessalonicean Brothers Cyril and Methodius International Sources on Saints Cyril and Methodius being Greeks. 1. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05: (Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, GREEK missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature. 2. Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information: Saints Cyril and Methodius: ...

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Οι Θεσσαλονικείς αδελφοί Ισαπόστολοι Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος Η Ελληνικότητα των Θεσσαλονικέων Αδερφών, Κυρίλλου και Μεθοδίου μέσα από την Διεθνή Βιβλιογραφία. 1. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05: (Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, GREEK missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature. 2. Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and ...

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  Miltiades Elia Bolaris July 12, 2009   The Former Yugoslav Republic of Makedonija - FYROM, is the diminutive ex-Yugoslav state that since 1991 has relentlessly and vigorously sought recognition by the international community under its chosen assumed name "Republic of Macedonia". Greeks have puzzled the world over by steadfastly refusing FYROM´s recognition under this name, basing their refusal ...

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   The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia A Challenge to the Macedonism of the Slavs © Marcus A. Templar, 2008. Abstract and Acknowledgement Chapter 1. What is all about? Regional Stability and Security Chapter 2. Ancient Macedonia and its people Chapter 3. Slavs: New Invaders in Byzantium  Chapter 4. Ilinden Uprising: A "Macedonian" or a Bulgarian Act? Chapter 5. The ...

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From the wonderful book of Richard West "Tito and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia" we cant but notice that there were no "Ethnic macedonians" but a mixture of Greeks, slavs, albanians and avars. The Greek monks Cyril and Methodius brought the Cyrillic script to Serbs, Bulgarians and Russians while in the major battles of ...

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A usual habbit of Skopjan propagandists is to use Orthodox icons found in churches in modern FYROM as 'evidence' of their culture. In reality this is far from truth. The vast majority of churches in FYROM contain iconographies done by Greek iconographies centuries ago. Just a few examples are: Monastery of St Naum In around 1806, the ...

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1. Comparative history of Slavic Literatures by Dmitrij Cizevskij    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present By Francisco Rodríguez Adrados page 265 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  3. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 By Jean W. Sedlar, page 144 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Central eastern Europe Crucible of World Wars edited by Joseph Slabey Rouček  page 62 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Modern ...

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All neutral sources mention that the two brothers had Greek names (we are keeping in mind Cyril was baptised as konstantinos), they were members of a noble family, their father Leon was a Greek military man and their mother of slavic background. Furthermore both brothers were born in Thessaloniki, were educated in Konstantinople where they ...

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