Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs
863 · Event
The Byzantine brothers evangelise the Slavs and devise the Glagolitic script, ancestor of Cyrillic — spreading Orthodox Christianity across eastern Europe.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Christianity, Master, Major Religions
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