Russian and some other Slav languages are written in Cyrillic script. Who was this "Cyril" who gave his name to the script?

fcowell You misunderstood your own source material. Cyril did not live from 827 to 828 nor did Methodius live from 815 to 820 as indicated by your copy! Those dates are estimates of their respective birth dates. According to your own source material, Cyril was born in either 826 or 827 and died 14 February 869. Methodius was born in 815 and died on 6 April 885.

It shows cyril living only 1 year

Mist have both been genius plus to have done so much at ages 1 and 5!!!!! How did the explanation get past the reviewers?

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William Laughlin, added to this the alphabet is called as such in homage to Cyril and Methodius by their disciples, because it was not necessarily them that created the alphabet, merely used it.

Better recheck your dates. I'm sure he lived more than 1 year and 5 years for the brother.

William Laughlin, Some "editor" apparently was asleep on the job to let this slip through. Yes, these dates did not make any sense. But your comments clarify this, William. Thanks.

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Sometimes a guess is just plain wrong. Especially when faced with a question that I have no earthly idea how to answer or figure out a way to answer it, and you regulars know how I feel about using hints and such.

Educated guess since monks are usually scholars.

William Laughlin, thank you straightening out the life dates little strange one living one year and the other living 5

Somebody should have noticed this before it was published. Good question though.

"It was not, however, until after Methodius' death, which is placed, though not with certainty, on 8 April, 885, that the animosity erupted into an open conflict. Gorazd, whom Methodius had designated as his successor, was not recognized by Pope Stephen V. The same Pope forbade the use of the Slavic liturgy and placed the infamous Wiching as Methodius' successor. The latter exiled the disciples of the two brothers from Great Moravia in 885. They fled to the First Bulgarian Empire, where they were welcomed and commissioned to establish theological schools. There they devised the Cyrillic Alphabet on the basis of the Glagolitic Alphabet. Cyrillic gradually replaced Glagolitic as the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) language, which became the official language of the Bulgarian Empire and later spread to the Eastern Slav lands of Kievan Rus'. Cyrillic eventually spread throughout most of the Slavic world to become the standard alphabet in the Orthodox Slavic countries. Hence, Cyril and Methodius' efforts also paved the way for the spread of Christianity throughout Eastern Europe."

It was not, however, until after Methodius' death, which is placed, though not with certainty, on 8 April, 885, that the animosity erupted into an open conflict. Gorazd, whom Methodius had designated as his successor, was not recognized by Pope Stephen V. The same Pope forbade the use of the Slavic liturgy and placed the infamous Wiching as Methodius' successor. The latter exiled the disciples of the two brothers from Great Moravia in 885. They fled to the First Bulgarian Empire, where they were welcomed and commissioned to establish theological schools. There they devised the Cyrillic Alphabet on the basis of the Glagolitic Alphabet. Cyrillic gradually replaced Glagolitic as the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) language, which became the official language of the Bulgarian Empire and later spread to the Eastern Slav lands of Kievan Rus'. Cyrillic eventually spread throughout most of the Slavic world to become the standard alphabet in the Orthodox Slavic countries. Hence, Cyril and Methodius' efforts also paved the way for the spread of Christianity throughout Eastern Europe.

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They died aged 1 & 5 ??1