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CYRIL (827-869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 706 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYRIL (827-869) , apostle of the Slays, amongst whom he worked in See also:conjunction with his See also:elder See also:brother See also:Methodius (q.v.). Tradition says that while in the Khazar See also:country (where he combated Jewish and See also:Mahommedan See also:influence) he found at See also:Kherson the remains of See also:Clement of See also:Rome, which he See also:bore with him wherever he went, finally depositing them at Rome in 867. His name is associated with the invention of the modified (See also:Cyrillic) See also:form of the See also:Greek See also:alphabet, which largely superseded the See also:ancient See also:Slavonic characters.

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