Bulgarian alphabet Bulgarian alphabet The Bulgarian alphabet is used to write the Bulgarian language. In AD 886, the Bulgarian Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s. The Glagolitic alphabet was gradually superseded in later centuries by the Cyrillic script, developed around the Preslav Literary School, Bulgaria at the beginning of the 10th century. Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the early and middle 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s: it
Cyril Crossland papers result from his stay on the Sudan Coast; his large manuscript on the biology and cultivation of the pearl oyster never found publication. The World Register of Marine Species lists 67 marine species named by Crossland, many of which have become synonyms. Sixty marine species were named after him with the epithet "crosslandi". Cyril Crossland Cyril Crossland (1878 – 1943) was an English zoologist. He worked as an assistant to Charles Eliot. He studied several groups of marine animals, especially the Protozoa, Corals and Molluscs. Cyril Crossland (1878-1943) was born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry