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Chernorizetz Hrabar is (or is known to be) the author of only one literary work, За буквите (An Account of Letters), which, on the other hand, was one of the most admired and popular works of literature written in Old Church Slavonic. За буквите is supposed to have been written shortly after the Bulgarian church council in 893 and is the only known medieval literary work, which quotes the exact year of the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet ( 855).

In За буквите, Chernorizetz Hrabar defends the alphabet against its Greek critics and proves not only its right to existence but also its superiority to the Greek alphabet arguing that the Greek letters are neither the oldest known to man, nor divine. At the same time Chernorizetz Hrabar opposes Glagolitic dogmatists and makes several suggestions as to how the alphabet can be further improved.

The manuscript of За буквите has been preserved in some 80 copies, the oldest of which dates back to 1348 and was made by the monk Laurentius for Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander . The work has also been printed in Vilnius ( 1575Events August 5 Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. October 10 Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. The Fifth War of Religion erupts in France. – 1580Events Michel de Montaigne publishes first Essay. September 26 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe 1580- 1764 First session if Jewish Waad ( Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss issue of taxati), MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is ( 1637Events February 3 Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order February 15 Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known), Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg ( Russian: English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as (transliterated "Piter"), formerly known as Leningrad (, 1924- 1991) and Petrograd (, 1914- 1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the Gulf of Finland ( 1776This article is about the year 1776. For the musical, see 1776 (musical Events January 10 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense March 17 American Revolutionary War: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington places artillery overl), SupraslSuprasl is a town in north-eastern Poland. Situated in the Podlasie Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Bialystok Voivodship (1975-1998). Education Wyzsza Szkola Wychowania Fizycznego i Turystyki Towns in Poland. ( 1781).