A report on Old Church Slavonic and Slavs in Lower Pannonia

Example of the Cyrillic alphabet: excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik" written in Old Slavonic, 1360

Slavic migration and settlement during the Early Middle Ages, including the region of Pannonia.

A page from the Gospel of Miroslav, Serbian medieval manuscript, a 12th-century Byzantine-Slavonic book, National Library of Serbia.

The Introduction of the Slavonic Liturgy in Great Moravia (1912), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic

"Simeon I of Bulgaria, the Morning Star of Slavonic Literature". (1923), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic

During the rule of Pribina and Kocel, capital of the Principality of Lower Pannonia was Mosapurc (Mosapurc regia civitate), also known in Old-Slavonic as Blatnograd (modern Zalavár near Lake Balaton).

- Slavs in Lower Pannonia

The history of Old Church Slavonic writing includes a northern tradition begun by the mission to Great Moravia, including a short mission in the Lower Pannonia, and a Bulgarian tradition begun by some of the missionaries who relocated to Bulgaria after the expulsion from Great Moravia.

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Great Moravia

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The first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, possibly including territories which are today part of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

Great Moravian sword from Blatnica, unearthed in the 19th century, originally interpreted as a burial equipment from a "ducal" mound

Principalities and lands within Great Moravia

Jewelry from a princely burial site at Kolín, 850–900 AD

Spherical gombiki from the Mikulčice Archaeological Park

Map of Moravia within East Francia in 814

A map presenting the theory of the co-existence of two principalities (Moravia and Nitra) before the 830s

Modern depiction of Rastislav as an Orthodox saint

Statue of Svatopluk I on Bratislava Castle, Slovakia

The papal bull Scire vos volumus of 879 addressed to Svatopluk

Icon of St Gorazd, a disciple of St Cyril and Method of Moravian origin, who was the designated successor of archbishop Method

Svatopluk I with three twigs and his three sons—Mojmír II, Svatopluk II and Predslav

Reconstruction of a Great Moravian gatehouse and ramparts in Thunau am Kamp, Austria

Foundations of a pre-Romanesque rotunda at the Great Moravian court in Ducové

Svatopluk I disguised as a monk in the court of Arnulf, King of East Francia (from the 14th-century Chronicle of Dalimil)

Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopčany, Slovakia, one of remaining buildings for which the Great Moravian origin is considered

Stone foundations of a church in Valy u Mikulčic, Czech Republic

Exhibition Among the tribes and the state. Room with the Early medieval princely burial from Kolín (Starý Kolín), 850–900 AD

An example of the Glagolitic script created by Saint Cyril for the mission in Great Moravia (Baščanska ploča from Croatia). The inscribed stone slab records Croatian king Zvonimir's donation of a piece of land to a Benedictine abbey in the time of abbot Drzhiha.

The kingdom saw the rise of the first ever Slavic literary culture in the Old Church Slavonic language as well as the expansion of Christianity, first via missionaries from East Francia, and later after the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in 863 and the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet dedicated to a Slavic language.

According to archaeologist Béla Miklós Szőke, the comitatus of Mosaburg in Pannonia was never part of Moravia.

Cyril and Methodius

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Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.

Cyril and Methodius, painting by Jan Matejko, 1885

Saints Cyril and Methodius in Rome. Fresco in San Clemente

Saint Cyril and Methodius by Stanislav Dospevski, Bulgarian painter

The Baška tablet is an early example of the Glagolitic from Croatia

A cartoon about Saints Cyril and Methodius from Bulgaria in 1938. The caption reads : Brother Cyril, go tell those who are inside to learn the alphabet so they know freedom (свобода) and anarchy (слободия) are not the same.

Basilica of St.Cyril and Methodius in Moravian Velehrad, Czech Republic

Cross Procession in Khanty-Mansiysk on Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in May 2006

Inauguration of the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius in Saratov on Slavonic Literature and Culture Day

Thessaloniki - monument of the two Saints gift from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria - Statue of the two Saints in front of the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia

Bulgaria - Statue of the two Saints in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia

North Macedonia - Statue of Cyril and Methodius near the Stone Bridge in Skopje

Czech Republic - Statue of Saints Cyril and Methodius at the Charles Bridge in Prague

Czech Republic - Saints Cyril and Methodius monument in Mikulčice

Czech Republic - Statue of Saint Methodius at the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc in Moravia

Russia - the monument in Khanty-Mansiysk

Serbia - the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius in Belgrade

Opening of Cyril and Methodius monument in Donetsk

Statue, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Třebíč, Czech Republic

They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.

Travelling with the relics of Saint Clement and a retinue of disciples, and passing through Pannonia (the Balaton Principality), where they were well received by Prince Koceľ.