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| | Albena Bakratcheva - Bulgarian Literature: Crossroad and Crucifix |
 | | But most probably the brothers created the highly elaborated Glagolitic alphabet, while their disciples in Bulgaria, most outstanding among whom was St. Kliment of Ohrid, created the Cyrillic alphabet, naming it after their teacher St. Cyril. |
| | The significance of the new letters was highly praised, odes were written in celebration of this historical deed, which was cherished not simply as patriotic, but mainly in terms of "untying the tongue and teaching reason", as Chernorizetz Khrabr puts it in his "Account of Letters". |
| | The Bible and lots of other Christian books were first translated into Bulgarian, and new books were written in the old Bulgarian language. |
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