EPTOn November 09 2012 06:16 TealHorseman wrote:
A short story about the cyrillic
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The inventors of the cyrillic (Kiril and Metodii) were actually both Bulgarian and Greek. They were handed this "mission" by the Byzantine emperor of that time. But later the project was forsaken and they became a bit of public enemies because they didn't want to abandon their work. Bulgaria offered them shelter and resourses for their work (at that time Bulgaria was a very rich and powerful country). When they arrived in Bulgaria they were separated so they can lead two "schools" of knowage. After their death their students perfected the alphabet and is later spread around all slavic countries.
And about your trip - I'm glad you enjoyed your stay. It's aways nice to see how forgeigners appreciate things that we have started to feel as granted. Reminds us to cherish what we have. And there are plenty of other sites to be seen. You should make a trip to the whole Rodopi mountains some time. They have plenty of antique villages, cave systems, interesting kitchen, fresh air and really beautiful scenery.
A short story about the cyrillic
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On November 08 2012 21:15 JieXian wrote:
Wow! looks really nice, it's making my want to go there too :O
priceless tip there >:D I heard Paris has retirees being free tour guides. That's nice but this is waaay better :D
I find it really surprising that the guy who invented cyrillic is from Bulgaria...
hmm however I don't think the triangle/delta is cyrillic (at least it's not used in Russian). Anyone know about that?
Edit: Googled "haroden theatre" as a guess from your picture and I realised it is now written as "Д". Very interesting how "Д" was the same as the Greek "Δ" in the past :O
oh ya and petra reminded me of dialo 2 act 2 hahaha
Wow! looks really nice, it's making my want to go there too :O
priceless tip there >:D I heard Paris has retirees being free tour guides. That's nice but this is waaay better :D
I find it really surprising that the guy who invented cyrillic is from Bulgaria...
hmm however I don't think the triangle/delta is cyrillic (at least it's not used in Russian). Anyone know about that?
Edit: Googled "haroden theatre" as a guess from your picture and I realised it is now written as "Д". Very interesting how "Д" was the same as the Greek "Δ" in the past :O
oh ya and petra reminded me of dialo 2 act 2 hahaha
The inventors of the cyrillic (Kiril and Metodii) were actually both Bulgarian and Greek. They were handed this "mission" by the Byzantine emperor of that time. But later the project was forsaken and they became a bit of public enemies because they didn't want to abandon their work. Bulgaria offered them shelter and resourses for their work (at that time Bulgaria was a very rich and powerful country). When they arrived in Bulgaria they were separated so they can lead two "schools" of knowage. After their death their students perfected the alphabet and is later spread around all slavic countries.
And about your trip - I'm glad you enjoyed your stay. It's aways nice to see how forgeigners appreciate things that we have started to feel as granted. Reminds us to cherish what we have. And there are plenty of other sites to be seen. You should make a trip to the whole Rodopi mountains some time. They have plenty of antique villages, cave systems, interesting kitchen, fresh air and really beautiful scenery.
its a nice country with friendly people (except for certain cab drivers in sofia (they are assholes; 75 levs to go to the hotel from airport my ass!! when i refused to pay and waved over another cabbie, the cab driver drove away, luckily i took my luggage out first)).
i considered going to the rodopi mountains, down south for the cave wineries and the east coast for the black sea, but because i was only there five days, i couldnt fit it all in. sometimes its hard to decide between short trips to major sites in a country and multiple countries, or only one country but see all you can see in that country. my plane ticket was $1500 and the flight was like 18+ hours so you kind of want to see as many places as possible.
