History
1494: the year Serbian Cyrillic got a printing press, decades before it lost one
A manuscript proves a script already existed; a printed book proves something different - that the technology reached it early. Barely forty years after Gutenberg, a mountain principality on the Adriatic ran a Cyrillic press for two short years before an empire ended it. The book it produced answers a question the rest of this blog's history articles keep circling: Serbian Cyrillic in print is centuries older than the moment it briefly went silent.
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