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The Slavs or Slavic peoples are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...

the monarchs of the South Slavs adopted Christianity in the 9th century, the East Slavs in the 10th, and the West Slavs between the 9th and 12th century...

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest...

and missionaries. For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Glagolitic...

(1987) Joan Mervyn Hussey, The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, 1990 Vlasto, A. P. (1970). The Entry of the Slavs into Christendom: An Introduction...

Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians...

Methodius began their mission to the Slavs, introducing the liturgical and canonical order of the Eastern Orthodox Church, translated into Church Slavonic...

and figurative sense. Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700. pp. 46, 157, 164, 189, Cornell University Press, 1995...

practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled...

them does from Proto-Slavic. The imposition of Old Church Slavonic on Orthodox Slavs was often at the expense of the vernacular. Says WB Lockwood, a prominent...

of the Balkans occupied by Slavs, slight parts population of Slavs were Hellenised, including conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, for example...

intellectual developments in western Europe than the East Slavs, who converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and adopted the Cyrillic alphabet. Linguistically...

success of Boris I's efforts was a major factor in making the Slavs in Macedonia—and the other Slavs within the First Bulgarian State—into Bulgarians and transforming...

First Principalities of South Slavs (9th-11th Centuries)". The World of the Slavs: Studies of the East, West and South Slavs: Civitas, Oppidas, Villas and...

JSTOR 44215176. Levin, Eve (2018). Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs 900–1700. Cornell University Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 978-1-5017-2762-7...

between the city and the contado. Dimitri Obolensky considers that the Orthodox Slavs in Eastern Europe and Balkans (Russians, Bulgarians and Serbs) had nationalism...

considerably and is still used by the Orthodox Slavs. Curta (2006), pp. 221–222. Hussey, J. M.; Louth, Andrew (2010). "The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire"...

Greek uncial, simplified matters considerably and is still used by the Orthodox Slavs. Florin Curta (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250...

whom they borrowed a variant of the Western Greek alphabet) and the Orthodox Slavs (at least when naming the Cyrillic letters, which came to them from...

Ruthenia. Several endonyms such as Rus' and Rusyn were used widely by the East Slavs of Kievan Rus' during the medieval period. Common endonymic use of those...