{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Cyrillic script and the Old Church Slavonic language\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/the-cyrillic-script-and-the-old.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/the-cyrillic-script-and-the-old.html'\u003EThe Cyrillic script and the Old Church Slavonic language\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EThe roots of the Russian orthodoxy lie outside Russia, in the Balkans. The Cyrillic Script wasn\u2019t created by Cyril, and Cyril\u2019s original name was Konstantin.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u201dApostles of the Slavs\u201c , the brothers Cyril and Method (Michael) came from Thessalonica, a town then on the borderline between Slavs and Greeks. They knew both languages: the language of the Macedonian Slavs, and Greek. They were invited to the Great Moravian Empire in 863 or 864 to help to spread Christianity among the \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-cyrillic-script-and-the-old.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}