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Euthymius of Tarnovo

c. 1325–c. 1402 · 14th century

Euthymius of Tarnovo was the last patriarch of medieval Bulgaria, from 1375 until the Ottoman capture of Tarnovo in 1393. A Hesychast monk and pupil of Theodosius of Tarnovo, he reformed the language and spelling of Church Slavonic books and wrote lives of saints. His Tarnovo literary school influenced Serbian, Romanian and Russian letters.

Euthymius of Tarnovo
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Second Bulgarian Empire

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