Ohrid Literary School

The School of Ohrid was next to the school of Preslav and that of Tarnovo during centuries one of the intellectual centers of the Bulgarian cultural area.

History

The establishment of the School of Ohrid was at 893 by Kliment of Ohrid at the behest of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris I.. , There was a close connection with the Christianization of the Bulgarians 863 and the introduction of the Old Church Slavonic as the liturgical language and the state language in the Bulgarian Kingdom. She has a lot of the " ( old) Bulgarian" spawned literature. According to tradition, Clement is said to have instructed 886-893 about 3500 students in the new written language. Most of them were distributed in groups of 300, as a priest and chaplain to the seven Bulgarian bishoprics that were created during the reign of Boris.

Unlike the other centers in the Bulgarian Empire, the school of Ohrid was able to develop even after the decline of the Bulgarian kingdom further and was subsequently a nationwide spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. The establishment of the Archdiocese of Ohrid and the granting of its large degree of autonomy in the reorganization of the diocese in 1018 was conducive to this development. In addition, some researchers call the school of Ohrid as the first Bulgarian and at the same time first Slavic university.

Wall painting

The painters of the late Byzantine Morava school come from the school of painters of Ohrid.