24th of May is the day in which we celebrate the creation of the Bulgarian script, known outside of Bulgaria as the Cyrillic alphabet.
The Byzantine scholars St. Cyril and Methodius craeted the Glagolitic alphabet around 862-863 so they can spread Christianity. According to our schools, it wasn’t too convenient to use. Their students, based in the Preslav Literary School, did multiple simplifications and created the new script based on the Greek letters with some Glagolitic. The result stuck and spread around the globe.
24th of May is an official holiday in Bulgaria. The video above shows the students and teachers from a local school entering the center of Blagoevgrad with their marching band to be later greeted by the president.
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Very interesting. So, the Bulgarian script is different from other similar scripts?
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Lots of regional adaptations. Russian, for example, has 3-4 additional letters. But it’s the same alphabet, they picked it from us.
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We actually visited the Cyrius and Methodius Church near Veliki Preslav. Quite the impressive history in that part of the country. Enjoy your holiday! Maggie
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Happy holiday. I attended the celebrations in haskovo today
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Was it nice?
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Yes very good. There was a parade by lots of different children’s clubs, a singer, some dancing and a poetry reading
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Enjoy your holiday.
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Thank you!
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Before my trip to Russia, I wanted to learn some basic words in Cyrillic. One word was all I could muster, it is a difficult language to learn. Many in St. Petersburg spoke English which refreshing to me. The further I roamed from the hotel the less English was spoken. The Russian people tried hard to help and many times helped me find my destination.
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Why can’t we see the video?
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Works for me?
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It comes up that the video is private for me😭
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Do you mind sending me a screenshot? It could be a bug
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Not at all
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Ah! It works now! What did you do!!?
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I didn’t do anything but with a screenshot of the broken video I would’ve reported it as a bug
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