The Temnić inscription () is one of the oldest records of medieval Serbian redaction of the

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from the territory of modern

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, dated to the late 10th, or early 11th century. It contains the form of accusative singular noun God (бога instead of богь), characteristic of Serbian recension of the Old Church Slavonic language. The

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plate was discovered in the vicinity of a school in the village of

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, near

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, in the region of

Temnić Temnić () is an area of Šumadija, which extends between the Velika Morava, the mountain of Juhor and the Western Morava in Serbia. It is bounded by the east from the Great Morava from the composition of the South and West Morava to the village of ...

in Pomoravlje. It was acquired by the

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in 1909. The tablet represents a scientific conundrum as no other remains of an edifice were found and

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and

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