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n. A member of a dualist Christian sect which flourished in the Balkans during the 10th to 15th centuries and was characterized by resistance to the state and church authorities.
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Bogomil (Cyrillic: Богомил, also Bogumił in Polish, Bohumil in Czech and Slovak) is a given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of the Slavic words 'bog' (god) and 'mil' (dear) and literally means 'Dear to God'. Thus it is considered as the equivalent to Latin Amadeus, Greek Theophil and German Gottlieb. Its feminine equivalents are Bogomila, Bogumiła, Bohumila. The sound change of 'g' > 'h' occurred in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech and Slovak. The name may refer to:
Bogomil is a village in the municipality of Harmanli, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.
Bogomil was a 10th-century Bulgarian priest and heresiarch, who was connected with the origins of Bogomilism. According to Cosmas the Priest the priest Bogomil first began to preach his beliefs in Bulgaria in the reign of the Peter I of Bulgaria (927 to 969), which indicates that Cosmas must have been writing later than 969. As with Cosmas the life of Bogomil is shrouded in mystery and what little we know of him comes from the sermons written against him. There is some uncertainty about his relationship to Jeremiah or whether they are the same person. The statement that Jeremiah was "a son (disciple) of Bogomil" may be an interpolation.
Bogomil Cove on Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Bogomil.
Usage examples of "bogomil".
The main hatch split horizontally, the halves rising and lowering simultaneously onto the mobile shelter extension from Bogomil Terminal.
Christ appears, moreover, an original Cathar tradition which does not have any counterpart in the Bogomil doctrines.
This was originally a Bogomil text and was not completely accepted by either all Bogomils or all Cathars.
They fled back across a battleground now deep with Pecheneg and Bogomil dead.
Cuman mercenaries appeared on the hilltop behind them: an entire barbarian nation, thirty thousand strong, and each and every one of them nursing a long-standing hatred of their Pecheneg and Bogomil neighbours.
The number of Bogomils, members of the dualistic Bosnian church, grew in Croatian coastal cities.
These Bogomils had once been the Christian masters of the land, generations ago, before the Ottoman Turks brought order to the valleys and mountains.
Both Catholics and Orthodox considered the Bogomils to be sinister heretics.
The local Christians believed that the last Bogomils had been killed or assimilated long ago, but a Jew, naturally, knew better than this.
The Cathars were an offshoot of the Bogomils, an heretical movement that first flowered in the Balkans in the mid-tenth century, but which remained influential in the area until after the Cathars met their doom.
Many Cathar sects entertained rather more orthodox ideas about John, and there are even signs that the Bogomils in the Balkans held rites on his feast day, 24 June.
A little later the heresy of the Bogomils gave an impulse to controversial writing.
Pechenegs and Bogomils in numbers beyond counting, tribe upon tribe, whole barbarian nations rising to the slaughter of the empire.
You speak as if the Fraticelli, Patarines, Waldensians, Catharists, and within these the Bogomils of Bulgaria and the heretics of Dragovitsa, were all the same thing!
There, I believe, he learned that smattering of Latin he spoke, mixing it with the speech of all the places where he had been as a poor homeless wanderer, and of all the vagabond companions he had encountered, from the mercenaries of my lands to the Bogomils of Dalmatia.