About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Ancient Athos, Athonite Fathers, Athos manuscripts, Medieval Athos, Monasteries on Mount Athos, Prayer rope, Hesychasm, Gregory Palamas, Esphigmenou Monastery, Demetrios Kydones, Codex Athous Lavrensis, Eugenios Voulgaris, Archimandrite Sophrony, Stavronikita monastery, Acanthus, George the Hagiorite, Athonite Academy, Minuscule 1739, Panagia Portaitissa, Kathisma, Codex Coislinianus, Zograf Monastery, Sacramentary of Serapion of Thmuis, Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Hilandar, Acts of Philip, Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, Medieval Bulgarian royal charters, Codex Athous Dionysiou, Great Lavra, Vatopedi monastery, Uncial 050, Codex Zographensis, Simonopetra monastery, Agiou Panteleimonos monastery, Silouan the Athonite, Minuscule 238, Cosmas of Aetolia, Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander, Codex Marianus, Porphyrios Bairaktaris, Athanasius the Athonite, Uncial 0102, Uncial 063, Paisius Velichkovsky, Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, Anatoly Tikhai, Lectionary 55, Euthymius of Athos, Uncial 051, Ouranopolis, Uncial 0167, Uncial 052, Lectionary 648, John the Iberian, Prochorus Cydones, Peter of Mount Athos, Karyes, Maximos Kausokalybites, Greek Gospel Book, Refutation of all Heresies, Cleonae, Apollonia. Excerpt: Map of Mount Athos.Mount Athos (Greek: English pronunciation: , Greek pronunciation: ) is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Today Greeks commonly refer to Mount Athos as the "Holy Mountain" (Greek: ). In Classical times, the peninsula was called Akte ( ) (sometimes Acte or Akte). The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Halkidiki...
