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Macedonian literature (Macedonian: македонска книжевност) begins with the Ohrid Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire (nowadays North Macedonia)[citation needed] in 886. These first written works in the dialects of the Old Church Slavonic were religious.[1] The school was established by St. Clement of Ohrid.[2][3] The Macedonian recension[clarification needed] at that time was part of the Old Church Slavonic and it did not represent one regional dialect but a generalized form of early Eastern South Slavic.[4] The standardization of Macedonian in the 20th century provided good ground for further development of the modern Macedonian literature and this period is the richest one in the history of the literature itself.

  1. ^ Macedonian literature – Britannica
  2. ^ Medieval Macedonian literature.
  3. ^ ...He introduced the language into the official sermons and prayers in Macedonia and Southern Albania, erected several monastery's and churches, delivered sermons among the people in their own language, becoming one of the first creators of Slav and Macedonian literature. Archived 2011-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Macedonian language on cybermacedonia.com
  4. ^ Old Church Slavonic grammar, Horace Gray Lunt, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 1., ISBN 3-11-016284-9