John the Exarch (also transcribed Joan Ekzarh; Church Slavonic: Їѡаннъ Єѯархъ Bulgarian: Йоан Екзарх) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. He was active during the reign of Boris I (r. 852–889) and his son Simeon I (r. 893–927). His most famous work is the compilation Shestodnev (Шестоднев – Hexameron) that consists of both translations of earlier Byzantine authors and original writings. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized him and his memory is honoured on the 13 August [O.S. 31 July]. In a manuscripts of the Gospels, held in the National Library of Serbia, an alternative date is given, namely — 13 February [O.S. 31 January].
JohntheExarch (also transcribed Joan Ekzarh; Church Slavonic: Їѡаннъ Єѯархъ Bulgarian: Йоан Екзарх) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator...
An exarch (/ˈɛksɑːrk/; from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος exarchos, meaning “leader”) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political...
from 584 to 751, when the last exarch was put to death by the Lombards. It was one of two exarchates established following the western reconquests under...
scholars worked at the school, including Naum of Preslav until 893; Constantine of Preslav; Joan Ekzarh (also transcr. JohntheExarch); and Chernorizets...
Constantine of Preslav and JohntheExarch combined translated and adapted Byzantine works with original texts. The latter compiled the Shestodnev (Шестоднев...
Ruled by an exarch (viceroy), it was established by the Emperor Maurice in 591 and survived until the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the late 7th century...
Constantine of Preslav; Joan Ekzarh (also transcr. JohntheExarch); and Chernorizets Hrabar, among others. The school was also a centre of translation, mostly...
The Hexaemeron of JohntheExarch, (ca. 9th century), Preslav, Bulgaria The Hexaemeron of Ælfric of Abingdon (ca. 10th century) The Hexaemeron of Peter...
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The following is a list of patriarchs of All Bulgaria, heads of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church was recognized as an autocephalous...
baptized by the Byzantine court, while John's character Qetrades has no real-life connection to the ruler of the Great Bulgaria Kubrat. Kubrat quickly...
Thrace. John Malalas recorded that in the battle was captured Bulgar warlord. In 535, magister militum Sittas defeated the Bulgar army at the river Yantra...
needed] The first Bulgarian Exarch was Antim I, who was elected by the Holy Synod of the Exarchate in February, 1872. He was discharged by the Ottoman...
and dioceses. Basil appointed the Bulgarian John I Debranin as its first archbishop, but his successors were Byzantines. The Bulgarian aristocracy and tsar's...
ISBN 0521616379, p. 28. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, John Van Antwerp Fine, University...
the Exarch one of the first non-liturgical Slavonic books Nebesa, album by Marina Kapuro This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
theorized as a pseudonym used by some of the other famous men of letters such as Constantine, JohntheExarch, Clement of Ohrid or even by Tsar Simeon...
Smarágdos) was Exarch of Ravenna from 585 to 589 and again from 603 to 611. During his first tenure, Smaragdus made an alliance with the Franks and Avars...
refused to give conduct to theJohn V Palaiologos who was returning home from Hungary. To force the Bulgarians to comply, John V ordered his relative Count...
and God". In 970, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes transplanted 200,000 Armenian Paulicians to Europe and settled them in the neighbourhood of Philippopolis...
weeks. John assisted Exarch Theophylactos, who had been sent to Italy by Emperor Tiberius III, and prevented him from using violence against the Romans...
The Ohrid Literary School or Ohrid-Devol Literary school was one of the two major cultural centres of the First Bulgarian Empire, along with the Preslav...
Teodore's account of his troubles, recorded on the pages of the Hexameron (Šestodnev) of JohntheExarch, which Teodore copied at Domentijan's request...
The Christianization of Bulgaria was the process by which 9th-century medieval Bulgaria converted to Christianity. It reflected the need of unity within...
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