Inscription of Župa Dubrovačka () is a

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script ( , , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saints Cyril and Methodi ...

inscription dated to the 11th century. The inscription was found in 2007 during an archeological excavation of graves close to the Church of

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located between the villages of

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and Buići in

Župa Dubrovačka Župa Dubrovačka is a municipality and a valley located in Dubrovnik-Neretva County in south-eastern Croatia. Župa Dubrovačka stretches between Dubrovnik, the old ''Ragusa'' in the west and Cavtat, the ancient Epidaurus in the east, between ...

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. It is the second largest Paleo-Slavic inscription from the earliest Glagolitic period, between the 10th and 12th century, the

Baška tablet Baška tablet (, ) is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian recension of the Church Slavonic language, dating from . On it Croatian ethnonym and king Demetrius Zvonimir are mentioned for the first time in native Cr ...

being the largest.

The inscription

The inscription totals 102 characters. The first 60-character part is written by Ivan, and in the second part Stjepan invokes St. Sophia and St. Sylvester. It reflects a vowel system composed of seven sounds: /a/, /e/, /i/, /u/, /o/, /ъ/, /ě/, and according to morphological and paleographic characteristics the inscription can be dated to the 11th century.

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