The Inscription of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav1 concerning a fortress which he built in Bitola
11th c.

/In the year 6523 (= 1015) from the creation of the world this fortress was erected/ built and made by Ivan Autocrat of the Bulgarians with the help and prayers of Our Sovereign, the Holy Mother of God, and the intercession of the Twelve and of /the two/ supreme apostles. This fortress was made /as/ a sanc/tuary/, for the salvation and the life of the Bulgarians. The Bitola fortress was begun in the month of October on the 20th /day/ and was completed in the month ... at the end ... was Bulgarian by birth ...

Source:
Ал. Бурмов, Новонамерен старобългарски над¬пис в HP Македония, сп. Пламък (A. Bcurmov, А Newly Found Old Bulgarian Inscription in the People's Republic of Macedonia, review Plamuk), No. 10, year III, 1959, p. 84. Йордан Заимов, Битолски надпис на Иван Вла¬дислав самодържец български, старобългарски надпис от 1015—1016 година, изд. на БАН (Yor-dan Zaimov, the Bitola Inscription of Ivan Vladislav, Bulgarian Tsar, an Old Bulgarian Monument of the' years 1015-1016, Published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Sofia, 1970, pp.33-34 . Срвн. Вл Мошнин, Битольска плоча из 1017 године, сп. Македонски язик (cf. V. Moshnin, The Bitola Plaque of 1017, Makedonski Yazik review), year XVII, 1966, pp.51 -61; the original is in Old Bulgarian