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Also Known As Old Slavonic language • Old Church Slavic

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Saints Cyril and Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Christian theologians
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Gennadius Of Novgorod
Russian Orthodox archbishop
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch
Theophylact of Ochrid
Greek archbishop
August Leskien
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar

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