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Neofit Peak
Neofit Peak (, ‘Vrah Neofit’ \'vr&h ne-'o-fit\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 1750 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.12 km south-southwest of Slaveykov Peak, 3.1 km southwest of the summit Mount Foster, 2.38 km northeast of Riggs Peak and 10.98 km northeast of Cape James. Overlooking Gramada Glacier to the south, and Armira Glacier to the east and southeast. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. Named
slavyanskiy".
Neofit Rilski made the first popular translation of the New Testament in modern Bulgarian language (not a mixture between Church Slavonic and vernacular elements), commissioned, edited and distributed by the American missionary Elias Riggs.
Rilski considered Old Church Slavonic as synonymous with Old Bulgarian and he tried to unify Western and Eastern Bulgarian dialects.
Neofit Rilski died in the Rila Monastery on 4 January 1881.
Honour.
Neofit Peak on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands and South-West University "Neofit Rilski"