Mount Athos
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mountain in northeastern Greece
Location: 40.1583, 24.3272 · Pleiades 501366
Who is recorded here
- Saint Paul of Xeropotamou death · AD 900
What happened here
- Great Lavra founded on Athos AD 963
In art
About the place
Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece directly on the Aegean Sea. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.
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