The Cyrillic Alphabet's Romanian Century

Before the Latin script we know today, Romanians wrote in Cyrillic for over six centuries. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace that forgotten alphabet — how it arrived with the Orthodox Church, how it survived under Phanariot rule, how a school in Transylvania and a prince in Bucharest began the shift to Latin, and why the final switch in 1862 was as much about politics as literacy. Along the way we meet Ștefan cel Mare's chancellery, the scholar Dosoftei, the printer Antim Ivireanul, and the revolutionary C.A. Rosetti. We also uncover what was lost in translation — from medieval manuscripts to the first Romanian Bibles — and how the alphabet debate echoed far beyond the classroom. A story about script, identity, and the quiet power of letters.

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