Trubar's translation work was dedicated above all to the Slovene people and the South Slavs. In his prefaces in Slovene and German he addresses various religious themes and clasrified certain other areas. Writing in German, he clarified the relationship between the Slovenes and the Sout Slavs, as well as the barries to widening the Reformation. To Slovene readers, as well as justifying the reformed church he presented its presence accross Europe, including among the Slavs. Knowledge of the Slavic world in Trubar's time will be illustrated using Abraham Ortelius's atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum from 1572.
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