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Rastislav

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Cut-out detail; background removed. A stone slab with three crosses and a damaged inscription at the lower right. — Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Prince Rastislav had requested teachers who could explain Christianity in a language people understood.

Scene 1 · Preslav and Ohrid

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Contemporary portrait, 802–803 · Dumbarton Oaks · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Nikephoros I
Depiction on a coin · Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Constantine IV
Mosaic · Unknown Byzantine mosaicist; Marvelfannumber1 (crop) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Justinian II
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Constans II
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Staurakios
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Zvonimir

First Tsardom

Preslav and Ohrid

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Not a portrait

Apostoloff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Glagolitic and Cyrillic: a museum comparison. Illustration to the passage mentioning Rastislav.

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Photo: Apostoloff, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Modern comparative panel in the National History Museum, Sofia; not a medieval inscription. Processed image.

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