Mount Athos, GR
The mountain and most of the
The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Mount Athos is a significant center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. Orthodox monks have been on Mount Athos since the fourth century, and possibly since the third.
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