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Which writing system, used for languages like Russian and Bulgarian, was named after a 9th-century saint?

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Cyrillic

It was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire and named in honor of Saint Cyril, who along with his brother Methodius, created the earlier Glagolitic alphabet to translate the Bible into Slavic languages.

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