Upon the conversion of the Bulgarians to Christianity in 865, Sardica was one of the first cities which had an episcopal see.

The process of conversion has affected mostly Muslim Bulgarians living among or next to ethnic Turks, i. e. the regions of Nedelino, Kirkovo, Zlatograd and Krumovgrad.

They were unsuccessful, and Boris I led the Bulgarians in their conversion to Eastern Christianity.

The earlier view that the settlement was founded by Bulgarians who escaped from the forced mass conversion into Islam in the valley of Chepino in 16th century today is rejected because it is believed that the settlement is much older.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

The older translation " conversion of life " has generally been replaced with phrases such as " a monastic manner of life ," drawing from the Vulgate's use of conversatio as the translation of " citizenship " in Philippians 3: 22.

However, beginning sometime after the Reformation, being born again has been predominantly understood by some Protestants ( of the " anabaptist " branch ) to be an experience of conversion symbolized by water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to one's own personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.

David MacDonald, a Catholic apologist, has written in regards to paragraph 1428, that " this endeavor of conversion is not just a human work.

Almost all of the natural environment has been destroyed by conversion to agriculture and logging for firewood, as well as natural soil erosion, all of which has threatened several species of birds and reptiles.

There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

" Such a faith will not be salvific until a person has allowed it to effect a life transforming conversion ( turning towards God ) in their being ( see Ontotheology ).

Historically, evangelism has on rare occasions led to forced conversion under threat of death or mass expulsion.

The degradation of forest ecosystems has also been traced to economic incentives that make forest conversion appear more profitable than forest conservation.

Drop kicks are optional for a conversion kick after a try has been scored.

Frumentius converted Ezana, who has left several inscriptions detailing his reign both before and after his conversion.

Then, dividing the units of energy ( such as eV ) by a fundamental constant that has units of velocity ( M < sup > 0 </ sup > L < sup > 1 </ sup > T < sup >-1 </ sup >), facilitates the required conversion of using energy units to describe momentum.

A multiplier has usually the advantage of rejecting-at least partly-undesired higher-order intermodulations and larger conversion gain.

Nominal X-ray energy is usually limited to 5 MeV ; the USA has provisions for up to 7. 5 MeV, which increases conversion efficiency.

All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud.

Therefore, in order to define the quantity of a catalyst, the rate of conversion of a defined chemical reaction has to be specified, preferably of the first order, under strictly controlled conditions.

Papyrus has a life of at most a century or two in relatively moist Italian or Greek conditions ; only those works copied onto parchment, usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those.

In the hills, conversion of forests to agricultural land — even on steep hillsides via terracing — is historically important, but has lessened in recent decades due to a shortage of remaining suitable terrain in the hills while mosquito suppression having opened formerly malarial land for settlement in the Terai.

The KamLAND experiment has indeed identified oscillations as the neutrino flavor conversion mechanism involved in the solar electron neutrinos.

Theft risk of this fuel ( potentially used in the production of a nuclear weapon ) has led to campaigns advocating conversion of this type of reactor to low-enrichment uranium ( which poses less threat of proliferation ).

The lower power station has four water turbines which can generate 360 MW of electricity, an example of artificial energy storage and conversion.

Energy storage as a natural process is as old as the universe itself-the energy present at the initial formation of the universe has been stored in stars such as the Sun, and is now being used by humans directly ( e. g. through solar heating ), or indirectly ( e. g. by growing crops or conversion into electricity in solar cells ).

Fuel cell development has increased in recent years due to an attempt to increase conversion efficiency of chemical energy stored in hydrocarbon or hydrogen fuels into electricity.

The source code's release has allowed total conversion mods such as Tremulous, World of Padman, OpenArena and Urban Terror to evolve into standalone free games.

At least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

Low-efficiency silicon solar cells have been decreasing in cost and multijunction cells with close to 30 % conversion efficiency are now commercially available.

The fathers of Christianity included those who had been disciples of Jesus such as Peter, Matthew, James and John, as well as others who may never have met him but were either influenced by accounts of his teachings such as the Gospel writers Mark and Luke, or described having spiritual revelations of his divine nature, such as Paul of Tarsus who actively encouraged the founding of Christian communities or " churches " after his conversion.

He later said that his true conversion did not happen until some time later: " I cannot consider myself to have been a believer in the full sense of the word, until a considerable time afterwards.

Jordanes ' conversion may have been a conversion to the trinitarian Nicene creed, which may be expressed in anti-Arianism in certain passages in Getica.

In particular, he felt that the two separate addresses were incongruous and suggested that the first address, occurring before the preamble, may have been inserted by someone familiar with Bede to echo Eadbald's future conversion ( see below ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church maintains that Mary Magdalene, distinguished from Mary of Bethany and the " sinful woman ", had been a virtuous woman all her life, even before her conversion.

Over the years various theories of conversion and member retention have been proposed that link mind control to NRMs, and particularly those religious movements referred to as " cults " by their critics.

The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name " Pierre " and the surname " Nostredame " ( the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized ).

The main changes are: explicit numeric conversion functions ( e. g. FLOOR and FLT ) must be used, the LOOP and EXIT statements have been eliminated, WHILE statements have been extended, RETURN statements can only be connected to the end of a function, imported variables and structured value parameters are read-only and arrays can be assigned without using COPY.

Paulinus may have been indirectly responsible for Augustine's Confessions: Paulinus wrote to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste and a close friend of Saint Augustine, asking about his conversion and taking up of the ascetic life.

It may have been added to mend a break in antiquity or after, or the result of a conversion from an original amphora form ( paralleled by a similar blue-glass cameo vessel from Pompeii )-it was definitely attached to the bottom from at least 1826.