This article is about the mountain in Greece. For the Eastern Orthodox monastic community and the autonomous region of Greece, see Monastic community of Mount Athos. For other uses, see Athos.
Mount Athos (/ˈæθɒs/; Greek: Ἄθως[ˈa.θos]) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece. It is an 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 the Aristotelis municipality. Women are prohibited from entering the area governed by the monastic community by Greek law and by religious tradition.[2]
Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its long Christian presence and historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 AD during the Byzantine era. Because of its long history of religious importance, the well-preserved agrarian architecture within the monasteries, and the preservation of the flora and fauna around the mountain, the monastic community of Mount Athos was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988.[3]
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MountAthos (/ˈæθɒs/; Greek: Ἄθως [ˈa.θos]) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox...
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of MountAthos (Greek: Πολιτικός διοικητής του Αγίου Όρους) is the civil head of government of the territory of the monastic community of MountAthos, an...
Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. "MountAthos Home Page – Athos Map – Political Situation". Archived from the original on 2011-12-17...
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Holy Synod, and the turmoil that arose in the Russian monasteries on MountAthos due to disputes over this teaching was suppressed using Russian armed...
that corresponds to the southern slopes of MountAthos. Located along the southernmost coast of the Athos peninsula, it stretches roughly from Katounakia...
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Christian monasticism, it took its definitive form in the 14th century at MountAthos. Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχασμός [isixaˈzmos]) derives from the word hesychia...
the Athos peninsula, part of the bigger Chalkidiki peninsula. It is the last settlement before the border with the monastic state of MountAthos (the...
the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous MountAthos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of...
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