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Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in , northern and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Skiti Agia Anna and Agia Triada.

Church
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The Skete of St Anne is a dependent idiorrhythmic skete, a monastic community attached to the more formalised in , . It lies on the shore of the about 800 metres from the New Skete. is situated 3½ km southwest of Mount Athos.

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Kafsokalyvia is a settlement and idiorrhythmic skete located on . It is located at the southern edge of the Athos peninsula. Kafsokalyvia is named after Maximos Kausokalybites, a 14th-century Christian hermit. is situated 3½ km south of Mount Athos.

Church
The Hermitage of Agios Vasileios, also sometimes referred to as the Skete of St. Basil, is an Orthodox skete on . The peak of Karmilio Oros lies directly to the northeast of the Skete of St. is situated 4 km southwest of Mount Athos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kerasia and Agiou Pavlou monastery.

Hamlet
Photo: Florificapis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a settlement in . It is located at an elevation of 581 metres on the southwestern slopes of the main peak of Mount Athos. Located just to the east of Little St. Anne's Skete and Katounakia, it is inhabited by a few dozen monks. is situated 3 km south of Mount Athos.

Locality
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is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of , located on the easternmost peninsula of , . is situated 3 km west of Mount Athos.

Hamlet
is the name of an area of that belongs to the Monastery of . It is located on the southeastern side of Mount Athos. It is named after Saint Nilos the Myrrh-streamer, who was a hermit in the cell of the Virgin Mary that now bears his name. is situated 3½ km southeast of Mount Athos.

Mount Athos

Latitude
40.15838° or 40° 9′ 30″ north
Longitude
24.32742° or 24° 19′ 39″ east
Elevation
2,033 metres (6,670 feet)
Open location code
8GG6585G+9X
Geo­Names ID
736681
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Mount Athos” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Атон”
  • Catalan: “Athos”
  • Chinese: “聖山”
  • Croatian: “Brdo Atos”
  • Czech: “Athos”
  • Dutch: “Athos”
  • Esperanto: “Athos”
  • Finnish: “Athos”
  • French: “Mont Athos”
  • Galician: “Monte Athos”
  • German: “Athos”
  • Greek: “Áthos”
  • Greek: “Άγιο Όρος”
  • Hungarian: “Athosz-hegy”
  • Ido: “Athos”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Monte Athos”
  • Lithuanian: “Atonas”
  • Norwegian: “Athos”
  • Polish: “Athos”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Athos”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Athos”
  • Russian: “Афон”
  • Serbian: “Света Гора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Света Гора”
  • Slovak: “Atos”
  • Spanish: “Monte Athos”
  • Swedish: “Athos”
  • Turkish: “Aynaroz”
  • Ukrainian: “Афон”
  • Venetian: “Mónte Athos”

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Localities in the Area

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