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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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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,879 metres
  • Description: mountain in northeastern Greece
  • Also known as: “Aftónomos Periochí Agíou Órous”, “Ágio Óros”, “Agion Oros”, “Ágion Óros”, “Athos”, “Athos Mountain”, “Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain”, “Avtonómos Periokhí Ayíou Órous”, “Áyion Óros”, “Dhioíkisis Ayíou Órous”, “Haghion Oros”, “Holy Athonite Republic”, and “Holy Mountain”
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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 Mount Athos, . It lies on the shore of the about 800 metres from the New Skete.

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

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agiou Pavlou monastery and Great Lavra.

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

Locality
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The Monastery of is the first monastery built on Mount Athos, on the Athos peninsula in geographical , northeastern . It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of 160 metres.

Locality
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is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in , at the southwest part of the Athos peninsula. The monastery ranks fifth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.

Mount Athos

Latitude
40.1584° or 40° 9′ 30″ north
Longitude
24.3273° or 24° 19′ 38″ east
Population
2,260
Elevation
1,879 metres (6,165 feet)
Open location code
8GG6585G+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26862510
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
736572
Wiki­data ID
Q130321
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Athos” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Athos”
  • Afrikaans: “Berg Athos”
  • Afrikaans: “Berg Atos”
  • Albanian: “Mali Athos”
  • Albanian: “Mali i Shenjtë”
  • Arabic: “جبل آثوس”
  • Armenian: “Աթոս”
  • Armenian: “Աֆոն”
  • Arpitan: “Rèpublica monastica du Mont Atos”
  • Asturian: “Monte Athos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afon”
  • Basque: “Athos mendia”
  • Basque: “Atos mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Атон”
  • Belarusian: “Афон”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Афон”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta gora”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta Gora”
  • Breton: “Menez Athos”
  • Bulgarian: “Aтонски полуостров”
  • Bulgarian: “Атон”
  • Bulgarian: “Св. Гора”
  • Bulgarian: “Света гора (планина)”
  • Bulgarian: “Света гора”
  • Catalan: “Akte”
  • Catalan: “Atos”
  • Catalan: “Hagion Oros”
  • Catalan: “Mont Athos”
  • Catalan: “Mont Atos”
  • Cebuano: “Ágion Óros (lawis sa Gresya)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Athos”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Athos”
  • Chinese: “亞陀斯半島”
  • Chinese: “阿索斯山”
  • Chinese: “阿索斯山自治修道院州”
  • Chinese: “阿苏斯神权共和国”
  • Croatian: “Athon”
  • Croatian: “Athos”
  • Croatian: “Aton”
  • Croatian: “Brdo Athos”
  • Croatian: “Brdo Atos”
  • Croatian: “Gora Aton”
  • Croatian: “Gora Atos”
  • Croatian: “Mont Athos”
  • Croatian: “Mount Athos”
  • Croatian: “Planina Athos”
  • Croatian: “Planina Atos”
  • Croatian: “Sv. Gora”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Gora (Atos)”
  • Croatian: “Sveta gora”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Gora”
  • Czech: “Athos”
  • Czech: “Hora Athos”
  • Danish: “Athos”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aynoroz”
  • Dutch: “Athos”
  • Dutch: “Ayion Oros”
  • Dutch: “Berg Athos”
  • Dutch: “Heilige Berg”
  • Dutch: “Mount Athos”
  • Dutch: “Oros Athos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اثوس”
  • Esperanto: “Athos”
  • Esperanto: “Atos”
  • Esperanto: “Atoso”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Athos”
  • Estonian: “Athos”
  • Estonian: “Áthos”
  • Estonian: “Athose mägi”
  • Estonian: “Áthose mägi”
  • Faroese: “Athos Fjallið”
  • Faroese: “Athos”
  • Faroese: “Fjallið Athos”
  • Faroese: “Mounth Athos”
  • Finnish: “Áthos (vuori)”
  • Finnish: “Athos-vuori”
  • Finnish: “Athos”
  • Finnish: “Áthos”
  • Finnish: “Athosvuori”
  • French: “Athonite”
  • French: “Athos”
  • French: “mont Athos”
  • French: “Mont Athos”
  • French: “République monastique du Mont Athos”
  • French: “Sainte Montagne”
  • Galician: “Monte Athos”
  • Georgian: “ათონი”
  • Georgian: “ათონის მთა”
  • Georgian: “აიონ-ოროსი”
  • German: “Agion Oros”
  • German: “Athos”
  • German: “Ayion Oros”
  • German: “Berg Athos”
  • German: “GR-69”
  • German: “Mönchsrepublik Athos”
  • Greek: “Άγιο Όρος”
  • Greek: “Άγιον Όρος”
  • Greek: “Άθως”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Μοναστική Πολιτεία Αγίου Όρους”
  • Greek: “Όρος Άθως”
  • Hebrew: “אתוס”
  • Hebrew: “הר אתוס”
  • Hindi: “आथॊस पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “एथोस पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “माउंट एथोस”
  • Hungarian: “Athosz-hegy”
  • Icelandic: “Aþos”
  • Ido: “Athos”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Athos”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Athos”
  • Italian: “Aghion Oros”
  • Italian: “Agios Oros”
  • Italian: “Monte Athos”
  • Italian: “Mount Athos”
  • Japanese: “アソス山”
  • Japanese: “アトス山”
  • Japanese: “アトス岬”
  • Javanese: “Mount Athos”
  • Kazakh: “Афон тауы”
  • Kazakh: “Афон”
  • Kirghiz: “Афон”
  • Korean: “아토스 산”
  • Korean: “아토스산”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Athosê”
  • Ladin: “Mont Athos”
  • Latin: “Athos”
  • Latvian: “Ajonora”
  • Lithuanian: “Atonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Atono kalnas”
  • Lombard: “Mont Athos”
  • Macedonian: “Атон”
  • Macedonian: “Атос”
  • Macedonian: “Света Гора”
  • Malayalam: “Holy Mountain”
  • Malayalam: “Mount Athos”
  • Malayalam: “മൗണ്ട് ആഥോസ്”
  • Maltese: “Agion Oros”
  • Maltese: “Athos”
  • Maltese: “Ayion Oros”
  • Maltese: “Haghion Oros”
  • Maltese: “Muntanja Athos”
  • Mingrelian: “აიონ-ოროსი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Athos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athosfjellet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Athos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agion Oros”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Athos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Áthos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayion Oros”
  • Norwegian: “Athos”
  • Norwegian: “Áthos”
  • Persian: “كوه آثوس”
  • Persian: “کوه آتوس”
  • Persian: “کوه آثوس”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ آثوس”
  • Persian: “کوه اثوس”
  • Polish: “Athos”
  • Polish: “Autonomiczna Republika Góry Athos”
  • Polish: “Góra Athos”
  • Portuguese: “Atonitas”
  • Portuguese: “Monte athos”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Atos”
  • Portuguese: “República de Monte Atos”
  • Romanian: “Athos”
  • Romanian: “Atos”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Athos”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Atos”
  • Romanian: “Muntelui Athos”
  • Romanian: “Sfântul Munte Athos”
  • Romanian: “Sfantul Munte”
  • Romanian: “Sfântul Munte”
  • Romanian: “Vârful Athon (2033 m.)”
  • Russian: “Агион-Орос”
  • Russian: “Айон-Орос”
  • Russian: “Афон”
  • Russian: “Афонская гора”
  • Russian: “гора Афон”
  • Russian: “Гора Афон”
  • Russian: “Святая Гора Афон”
  • Russian: “Святая Гора”
  • Russian: “Святой Афон”
  • Rusyn: “Афон”
  • Sakizaya: “A-suo-se-san”
  • Scots: “Mount Athos”
  • Serbian: “Sveta gora”
  • Serbian: “Аγιоν Оρоς”
  • Serbian: “Атонска гора”
  • Serbian: “Атос”
  • Serbian: “Полуострво Атос”
  • Serbian: “Света гора Атонска”
  • Serbian: “Света гора”
  • Serbian: “Света Гора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Athos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brdo Atos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Gora”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Света Гора”
  • Slovak: “Athos”
  • Slovak: “Atos”
  • Slovenian: “Atos”
  • Spanish: “Monasterios del Monte Athos”
  • Spanish: “Monte Athos”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Athos”
  • Swedish: “Agio Oros”
  • Swedish: “Ágion Óros (halvö i Grekland)”
  • Swedish: “Agion Oros”
  • Swedish: “Akte”
  • Swedish: “Athos”
  • Swedish: “Athosberget”
  • Swedish: “Athoshalvön”
  • Swedish: “Atos”
  • Swedish: “Hagion Oros”
  • Swedish: “Mount Athos”
  • Tamil: “அதோஸ் மலை”
  • Tatar: “Афон тавы”
  • Thai: “Mount Athos”
  • Thai: “เขาแอทอส”
  • Thai: “เมานต์อะทอส”
  • Turkish: “Athos Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Aynaroz”
  • Turkish: “Aynoroz Dağı Özerk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Aynoroz”
  • Ukrainian: “Афон”
  • Ukrainian: “гора Афон”
  • Ukrainian: “Гора Афон”
  • Urdu: “کوہ آتھوس”
  • Venetian: “Monte athos”
  • Venetian: “Mónte Athos”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Athos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Athos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mga monasterya han Bukid Athos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mount Athos Monasteries”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Athos”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթոս լեռ”
  • Western Frisian: “Atos”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿索斯山”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿索斯山”

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