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The strong Byzantine influence which Preslav experienced as Bulgaria’s capital in the 9th and the 10th century is a plausible reason for the incorporation of Greek letters into the Glagolitic alphabet. Though the alphabet is usually attributed to Saint Clement of Ohrid, a Bulgarian scholar and disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the alphabet is more likely to have developed at the Preslav Literary School in northeastern Bulgaria, where the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions (dating back to the 940s) have been found. Whereas it is widely accepted that the Glagolitic alphabet was invented by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the origins of the early Cyrillic alphabet are still a source of much controversy. Some of them, especially those representing sounds that did not exist in medieval Greek, retain their Glagolitic forms. The glyphs in the Cyrillic alphabet are, however, mainly Byzantine Greek letters. The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a 9th century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.