TheOhrid Literary SchoolorOhrid-DevolLiterary schoolwas one of the two major cultural centres of theFirst Bulgarian Empire,along with thePreslav Literary School(Pliska Literary School).[1]The school was established inOhrid(in what is nowNorth Macedonia). Another center wasDevol(modern-dayAlbania) as well asDrembica,GlavinicaandVelikawith unknown location. All the school centers were located in a then Bulgarian province known asKutmichevitsa.[2]It was founded in 886 by SaintClement of Ohridon the order ofBoris I of Bulgariasimultaneously or shortly after the establishment of thePreslav Literary School.AfterClementwas ordained bishop of Drembica, Velika (bishopric) in 893, the position of head of the school was assumed byNaum of Preslav.The Ohrid Literary School used theGlagolitic Alpha betfrom its establishment until the 12th century andCyrillicfrom the end of the 9th century onward. Between 990 and 1015, Ohrid was the capital of theBulgarian Empireand simultaneously also the seat of theBulgarian Patriarchate.[3]
References
edit- ^Steven Runciman,A history of the First Bulgarian Empire,Appendix IX - The Cyrillic and Glagolitic Alpha bets, (G. Bell & Sons, London 1930)
- ^Florin Curta, Andrew Holt as ed. Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History ABC-CLIO, 2016,ISBN1610695666,pp. 446-447.
- ^T. Kamusella and Peter Burke, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Contributor Peter Burke, Springer, 2008;ISBN0230583474,p. 249.