Christianization of the Balkans

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The Christianization of the Balkans was the gradual process during the early and high Middle Ages by which the diverse pagan and heretical populations of the Balkan Peninsula were converted to Christianity under the influence of Byzantine, Latin, and later Slavic powers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christianization
historical process
religious conversion
hasAspect baptism of rulers and elites
competition between Byzantine and Latin rites
foundation of bishoprics and archbishoprics
monastic colonization
translation of liturgical texts
hasCause Christian missionary activity
Latin ecclesiastical policy
imperial policy of the Byzantine Empire
political expansion of Christian states
hasConsequence Latin Christian cultural influence on coastal regions
formation of Orthodox Slavic culture
long-term confessional fragmentation of the Balkans
hasEndTime High Middle Ages
surface form: high Middle Ages
hasInfluence Byzantine Empire
First Bulgarian Empire
Kingdom of the Franks
surface form: Frankish Empire

Latin Church worldwide
surface form: Latin Church

Papal States
Serbian principalities
surface form: Serbian states

Slavic states
hasKeyEvent Christianization of Albania
Christianization of Bosnia
Christianization of Bulgaria
Christianization of Croatia
Christianization of the Balkans self-linksurface differs
surface form: Christianization of Serbia

Christianization of the South Slavs
mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius
hasKeyFigure Byzantine Emperor Basil I
surface form: Basil I the Macedonian

Boris I of Bulgaria
Saint Cyril
surface form: Cyril

Methodius
Pope Nicholas I
hasLocation Balkans
surface form: Balkan Peninsula

Balkans
surface form: Southeastern Europe
hasMainRegion Balkans
surface form: Byzantine Balkans

Balkan Latin
surface form: Latin Balkans

South Slavs
surface form: Slavic Balkans
hasStartTime early Middle Ages
late antiquity
replacesReligion Arianism
surface form: Arian Christianity

Ancient Greek religion
surface form: Hellenic polytheism

Illyrian paganism
Slavic paganism
Thracian paganism
resultsIn integration of Balkan polities into Christian Europe
religious division between Eastern and Western Christianity in the Balkans
spread of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Balkans
spread of Roman Catholicism in the Balkans
targetsPopulation Albanian ancestors
Arian and other heretical groups
Bulgars
Croats
Illyrians
Serbs
Slavs in the Balkans
Thracians
Balkan Vlachs
surface form: Vlachs

pagan populations of the Balkans
usesLanguage Church Slavonic
surface form: Old Church Slavonic
usesScript Cyrillic script
surface form: Cyrillic alphabet

Glagolitic script
surface form: Glagolitic alphabet

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Christianization of Europe hasPart Christianization of the Balkans
Saint Cyril associatedWith Christianization of the Balkans
this entity surface form: Byzantine missions to the Slavs
Saint Methodius movement Christianization of the Balkans
this entity surface form: Christianization of the Slavs
Christianization of the Balkans hasKeyEvent Christianization of the Balkans self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Christianization of Serbia
Saint Clement of Ohrid associatedWith Christianization of the Balkans
this entity surface form: Christianization of Macedonia region
Illyrian paganism followedBy Christianization of the Balkans
this entity surface form: Christianity in the Balkans
Illyrian paganism declineCause Christianization of the Balkans
Christianization of the Slavs associatedWith Christianization of the Balkans
this entity surface form: Baptism of the Serbs