MACEDONIA

1. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05: (Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, GREEK missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature.

2. Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information:

Saints Cyril and Methodius:

The emperor chose two brothers, sons of a Thessalonian Greek, Methodius and Constantine (generally known as Cyril by the name he adopted upon becoming a monk) .[..] (Cyril who had) ...;been professor of philosophy at the patriarchal school in Constantinople, worked with Methodius, the abbot of a Greek monastery, ...;"

3. The Slav Pope John Paul II who in 31/12/1980 (in an official encyclical-Egregiae Virtutis-to the Catholic Church) and 14/2/1981(in the S.Clement church in Rome) said that Cyrillos and Methodios
were "Greek brothers, born in Thessaloniki"

4.  the Serb historian V.Bogdanovich, says that "Kyrillos and Methodios were born in Thessaloniki and were Greeks in origin, not Slavs" (History of the ancient Serbian literature, Belgrade 1980, pg.119).

5. "The macedonian conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a transnational world by Loring Danforth

"Then in the ninth century Cyril and Methodius, two Greek monks from Thessaloniki , developed the Cyrillic alphabet and spread both literacy and Christianity to the Slavs.

6. Two Greek brothers from Salonika, Constantine, who later later became a monk and took the name Cyril, and Methodius came to Great Moravia in 863 at the invitation of the Moravian Prince Rostislav ("Comparative history of Slavic Literatures" by Dmitrij Cizevskij, page vi)

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