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In the classical era, Mount Athos was called Athos and the peninsula Acté or Akté (Koinē Greek: Ἀκτή).In modern Greek, the mountain is Oros Athos (Greek: Όρος Άθως) and the peninsula Hersonisos tou Atho (Greek: Χερσόνησος του Άθω), while the designation Agio Oros (Greek: Άγιο Όρος) translating to 'Holy Mountain' is used to denote the monastic community.
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Module:Location map/data/Mount Athos is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Mount Athos. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Mount Athos: Mount Athos 1988 454; i, ii, iv, v, vi, vii (mixed) Situated on a narrow peninsula, Mount Athos has been governed as an autonomous entity since Byzantine times. An Orthodox spiritual centre since the 10th century, it is home to about 20 active monasteries. Mount Athos has exerted lasting influence on the development of religious ...
Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain. Filathonites. ISBN 978-0-473-41386-6. (a detailed multilingual map of Mount Athos in English, Greek, and Russian; also contains notes in German, French, Italian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Romanian) Thomas, Chris and Howorth, Peter (2022). Encounters on the Holy Mountain. ISBN 978-2-503-58911-4. (stories from Mount ...
Toggle Examples using location map templates subsection. 4.1 Location map, using default map (image) ... Module: Location map/data/Mount Athos/doc. Add languages.
Mount Athos peninsula from the stratosphere (at an altitude of 23 km), and simulation of the Xerxes Canal (seen from north). The Xerxes Canal ( Greek : Διώρυγα του Ξέρξη ) was a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki , northern Greece , built in the 5th century BC.
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, [4] [5] as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region, a regional unit and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part of the Athos ...