Mount Athos
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Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece directly on the Aegean Sea. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.
Mt. Athos
Mount Athos seen from the northwest
Imaginary view of the Alexander monument, proposed by Dinocrates; engraving by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, 1725
A cross on Athos Peak
The monastic community living on the Mount Athos peninsula is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks living in Northern Greece. The community enjoys autonomous self-government within the borders of th
Mount Athos
…important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are governed as an autonomous region in Greece by the monastic community of Mount Athos, which is ecclesiastically under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The remainder of the peninsula forms part of…
Gregoriou Monastery, one of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos
diamonitirion ("access permit") from 1978
A Byzantine watch tower, protecting the dock (αρσανάς, arsanás) of Xeropotamou monastery
Emperor Nicephorus Phocas