Christianization of the Balkans

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Christianization historical process religious conversion

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 NERFINISHED → 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 → 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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Saint Cyril → associatedWith → Christianization of the Balkans →

this entity surface form: "Byzantine missions to the Slavs"

Christianization of the Balkans → hasKeyEvent → Christianization of the Balkans →

this entity surface form: "Christianization of Serbia"

Christianization of Europe → hasPart → Christianization of the Balkans →

Saint Methodius → movement → Christianization of the Balkans →

this entity surface form: "Christianization of the Slavs"