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John the Exarch
John the Exarch was a Bulgarian scholar and churchman of the late 9th and early 10th centuries, active at Preslav under Simeon I. His Hexaemeron, a commentary on the six days of creation drawn from Greek sources, includes a celebrated description of Simeon's court. He also translated part of John of Damascus's Source of Knowledge, helping to create a Slavonic theological vocabulary.
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