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| Athos / Holy Mountain xcex86xcexb8xcfx89xcfx82 / xcex86xcexb3xcexb9xcexbfxcexbd xcex8cxcfx81xcexbfxcfx82Location and extent of Mount Athos (red) in GreeceCapitalKaryesaLanguages List Greek Bulgarian Romanian Russian Serbian[1] Religion Eastern OrthodoxyDemonym(s)Athonite (xcex91xcexb8xcfx89xcexbdxcexafxcfx84xcexb7xcfx82)Agiorite (xcex91xcexb3xcexb9xcexbfxcfx81xcexb5xcexafxcfx84xcexb7xcfx82)Countryxc2xa0GreeceGovernmentAutonomous theocratic society led by ecclesiastical councilxe2x80xa2xc2xa0Civil Administrator Athanasios Martinosxe2x80xa2xc2xa0Protos (Elder Monk) Elder Symeon Dionysiates Autonomy within Greecexe2x80xa2xc2xa0Established under the Constitution of Greece 1927[2]xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Reaffirmed 1975 Areaxe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total335.63xc2xa0km2 (129.59xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)Populationxe2x80xa2xc2xa02011xc2xa0census1,811xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Density5.40/km2 (14.0/sqxc2xa0mi)CurrencyEuro[note 1] (xe2x82xac) (EUR)Time zoneEET Location of the primary church (the Protaton) for the Athonite administration[3] and the seat of the Protos (elder monk) since 911. | WIKI |
| Mount Athos (/xcbx88xc3xa6xcexb8xc9x92s/; Greek: xcex86xcexb8xcfx89xcfx82, [xcbx88a.xcexb8os]) is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. | WIKI |
| Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. | WIKI |
| Mount Athos is commonly referred to in Greek as the Agion Oros (xcex86xcexb3xcexb9xcexbfxcexbd xcex8cxcfx81xcexbfxcfx82, 'Holy Mountain'), and the entity as the "Athonite State" (xcex91xcexb8xcfx89xcexbdxcexb9xcexbaxcexae xcexa0xcexbfxcexbbxcexb9xcfx84xcexb5xcexafxcexb1, Athonikxc3xad Politxc3xada). | WIKI |
| 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 AD 800 and the Byzantine era. | WIKI |
| The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage site since 1988. | WIKI |
| Although Mount Athos is legally part of the European Union like the rest of Greece, the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain and the Athonite institutions have a special jurisdiction which was reaffirmed during the admission of Greece to the European Community (precursor to the EU). | WIKI |
| Mount Athos - view from NW | WIKI |
| A map of Mount Athos | WIKI |
| The actual Mount Athos has steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033xc2xa0m (6,670xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Though land-linked, Mount Athos is practically accessible only by boat. | WIKI |
| The number of daily visitors to Mount Athos is restricted, and all are required to obtain a special entrance permit valid for a limited period. | WIKI |
| As part of measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, visits to Mount Athos were suspended from 19xe2x80x9330 March 2020. | WIKI |
| Athos threw a massive rock at Poseidon which fell in the Aegean sea and became Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| [11] Herodotus writes that, during the Persian invasion of Thrace in 492 BC, the fleet of the Persian commander Mardonius was wrecked with losses of 300 ships and 20,000 men, by a strong North wind while attempting to round the coast near Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| The peninsula as seen from the summit of Mount Athos (40xc2xb09xe2x80xb228xe2x80xb3N 24xc2xb019xe2x80xb236xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf40.15778xc2xb0N 24.32667xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 40.15778; 24.32667) | WIKI |
| Historical documents on ancient Mount Athos history are very few. | WIKI |
| During the reign of Julian the Apostate (361xe2x80x93363), the churches of Mount Athos were destroyed, and Christians hid in the woods and inaccessible places. | WIKI |
| The chroniclers Theophanes the Confessor (end of 8th century) and Georgios Kedrenos (11th century) wrote that the 726 eruption of the Thera volcano was visible from Mount Athos, indicating that it was inhabited at the time. | WIKI |
| Holy Mount Athos: The Holy Mount Athos: Sheltering the Oldest Orthodox Literary Treasures (1926), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic | WIKI |
| In 958, the monk Athanasios the Athonite (xcex86xcexb3xcexb9xcexbfxcfx82 xcex91xcexb8xcexb1xcexbdxcexacxcfx83xcexb9xcexbfxcfx82 xcexbf xcex91xcexb8xcfx89xcexbdxcexafxcfx84xcexb7xcfx82) arrived on Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| From the 10th to the 13th centuries, there was a Benedictine monastery on Mount Athos (between Magisti Lavra and Philotheou Karakallou[21]) known as Amalfion after the people of Amalfi who founded it. | WIKI |
| During the 11th century, Mount Athos offered a meeting place for Serbian and Rus' monk Scribes. | WIKI |
| From 1100 to 1169 the St. Panteleimon Monastery was in a state of decay and such Russian monks as remained in Mount Athos lived at Xylourgou among the Serbs. | WIKI |
| The 14th century also saw the theological conflict over the hesychasm practised on Mount Athos and defended by Gregory Palamas (xcex86xcexb3xcexb9xcexbfxcfx82 xcex93xcfx81xcexb7xcexb3xcfx8cxcfx81xcexb9xcexbfxcfx82 xcexbf xcexa0xcexb1xcexbbxcexb1xcexbcxcexacxcfx82). | WIKI |
| Serbian lords of the Nemanjixc4x87 dynasty offered financial support to the monasteries of Mount Athos, while some of them also made pilgrimages and became monks there. | WIKI |
| Stefan Nemanja helped build the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos together with his son Archbishop Saint Sava in 1198. | WIKI |
| From 1342 until 1372 Mount Athos was under Serbian administration. | WIKI |
| Emperor Stefan Duxc5xa1an helped Mount Athos with many large donations to all monasteries. | WIKI |
| Duxc5xa1an was the only medieval lord who spent a lot of his time in Mount Athos and at the same time from there ruled the Empire,[citation needed] spending 9 months there together with his wife around 1347. | WIKI |
| [citation needed] Empress Jelena, wife of the Emperor Stefan Duxc5xa1an, was among the very few women allowed to visit and stay in Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| Thanks to the donations by Duxc5xa1an, the Serbian monastery of Hilandar was enlarged to more than 10,000 hectares, thus having the largest possessions on Mount Athos among other monasteries, and occupying 1/3 of the area. | WIKI |
| The time of the Serbian Empire was a prosperous period for Hilandar and of other monasteries in Mount Athos and many of them were restored and rebuilt and significantly enlarged. | WIKI |
| [29] As a wife of Murad II, Mara Brankovixc4x87 used her influence on the Ottoman court to secure the special status of Mount Athos inside the Ottoman Empire. | WIKI |
| [citation needed] At the end of the 15th century five monasteries on Mount Athos had Serbian monks and were under the Serbian Prior: Docheiariou, Grigoriou, Ayiou Pavlou, Ayiou Dionysiou and Hilandar[30] | WIKI |
| Under Ottoman rule many Serbian nobles including ones who were under direct Ottoman rule or had accepted the Muslim faith continued their support for Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| [citation needed] In modern times after the end of Ottoman rule new Serbian kings from the Obrenovixc4x87 dynasty and Karaxc4x91orxc4x91evixc4x87 dynasty and the new bourgeois class continued their support of Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| After the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia many presidents and prime ministers of Serbia visited Mount Athos. | WIKI |
| In June 1913, a small Russian fleet, consisting of the gunboat Donets and the transport ships Tsar and Kherson, delivered the archbishop of Vologda, and a number of troops to Mount Athos to intervene in the theological controversy over imiaslavie (a Russian Orthodox movement). | WIKI |
| Cloaked by beautiful chestnut and other types of Mediterranean forest, the steep slopes of Mount Athos are punctuated by twenty imposing monasteries and their subsidiary establishments. | UNESCO |
| An Orthodox spiritual centre since the 10th century, Mount Athos has enjoyed a self-administered status since Byzantine times. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The transformation of a mountain into a sacred place made Mount Athos a unique artistic creation combining the natural beauty of the site with the expanded forms of architectural creation. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): Mount Athos exerted lasting influence in the Orthodox world, of which it is the spiritual centre, on the development of religious architecture and monumental painting. | UNESCO |
| Iconographic themes, codified by the school of painting at Mount Athos and laid down in minute detail in the Guide to Painting (discovered and published by Didron in 1845), were used and elaborated on from Crete to the Balkans from the 16th century onwards. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (v): The monastic ideal at Mount Athos has preserved traditional human habitations, which are representative of the agrarian cultures of the Mediterranean and have become vulnerable through the impact of change within contemporary society. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos is also a conservatory of vernacular architecture as well as agricultural and craft traditions. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos is directly and tangibly associated with the history of Orthodox Christianity which, in varying degrees, is present in more than 20 nations in the 20th century. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vii): The harmonious interaction of traditional farming practices and forestry is linked to the stringent observance of monastic rules over the course of centuries, which has led to the excellent preservation of the Mediterranean forests and associated flora of Mount Athos. | UNESCO |
| Closely associated with the history of Orthodox Christianity, Mount Athos retains its Outstanding Universal Value through its monastic establishments and artistic collections. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos encompasses an entire peninsula of 33,042 ha, an area of sufficient size to maintain a rich flora and fauna that has been well conserved by careful management of the forests and traditional agricultural practices. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos has an enormous wealth of historic, artistic and cultural elements preserved by a monastic community that has existed for the last twelve centuries and constitutes a living record of human activities. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos has a peculiar self-administered system under Hellenic Constitutional Law. | UNESCO |
| The Hellenic State has placed the responsibility for the protection and conservation of the natural and cultural property into public agencies, namely the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, General Secretariat of Culture, through the responsible 10th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, the Centre for the Preservation of the Athonite Heritage, the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate for Churches xe2x80x93 Mount Athos Administration). | UNESCO |
| Promotion of Mount Athosxe2x80x99 cultural heritage includes conferences, publications and more recently the internet. | UNESCO |
| Mount Athos is well-known to the Orthodox Christian world and attracts many thousands of visitors, scholars and pilgrims every year. | UNESCO |