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	Mount Athos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos: Xenofondos
		According to the constitution of Greece, Mount Athos (the "Monastic State of Aghion Oros") is politically self-governed and consists of 20 main monasteries (which constitute the Holy Community to administer the territory) and the capital city and administrative centre, Karyes, also home to a governor as the representative of the Greek state.
		The monasteries of Mount Athos have a history of opposing ecumenism, or movements towards reconciliation between the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and the Roman Catholic Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Athos (3329 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Mount Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mount Athos (Greek: Όρος Άθως) is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο Όρος (Ayio Oros or Ayion Oros or "Holy Mountain") in Modern Greek, or Άγιον Όρος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek.
		Athos is a mountain the easternmost of the three promontories of Chalkidiki, whose pyramidal summit rises sheer from the sea 2.033 metres.
		Athos was an area eminently suited to those wishing to practice the rigours of an ascetic life, and from the earliest years of the Byzantine period it attracted men from all parts of the Empire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mount-Athos (5547 words)

	Athos (fictional character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.
		In the latter two novels, he is openly known as the Comte de la Fère and is the father of the young hero, Raoul de Bragelonne.
		The fictional Athos is named after the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615-1644) (they don't actually have much in common apart from the name).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athos_(fictional_character) (353 words)

	A pilgrimage to the monasteries of Mount Athos, Halkidiki, Greece, religion, Greek Orthodox, Byzantium, hermit, ...
		However, the first historical reference of the Mountain as a monastic centre is in a passage stating that monks from Athos took part in the Council of 843 AD, convened by Theodora the Byzantine Empress, to discuss the restoration of the Holy Icons.
		During the thirteenth century the Latins occupied Mount Athos and the monks were subjected not only to frequent raids but also to great pressure to accept the unification of the two churches.
		The constitution of Mount Athos is traditional, based on seven Typika (decrees) dating from 971 to 1810 and ratified by the Treaty of Lasagne in 1923.
	www.ouranoupoli.com /athos/athos.html (4278 words)

	Ethan of Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethan of Athos is a science fiction novel which is part of the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold.
		Athos has strict controls on its population, requiring it to be exclusively male.
		In the process of tracking the shipment down, he gets mixed up in a kidnapping plot by bounty hunters who are seeking a fugitive who knows about a mysterious genetic experiment that is connected with the missing cultures.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Ethan_of_Athos.html (361 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mount Athos
		Athos is a small tongue of land that projects into the Aegean Sea, being the eastern-most of the three strips in which the great mountainous peninsula of Chalcidice ends.
		The monks of Mount Athos are somewhat indifferent towards these treasures; nothing has been done to make them accessible, except the unsuccessful attempt of Archbishop Bulgaris of Corfu to found at Mount Athos, towards the close of the eighteenth century, a school of the classical languages.
		ATHELSTAN RILEY, Athos, the Mountain of the Monks (London, 1887); CURZON, Monasteries of the Levant (6th ed., London, 1881), LANGLOIS, Le Mont Athos et ses monastères (Paris, 1867); DE VOGÜÉ, Syrie, Palestine et Mont Athos (Paris, 1878), NEYRAC, L'Athos (Paris, 1880); KAULEN in Kirchenlex., I, 1555-63; MEYER in Zeitschr.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02047b.htm (2587 words)

	Mount Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lastly, Athos became an ark of refuge from the hostility emanating from the Byzantine emperors and the inhabitants of Constantinople towards monks and monasticism in general, especially during the iconoclastic period.
		It is recorded that monks from Athos participated in the Council of 843 convened by the Empress Theodora to discuss the restoration of the holy icons.
		The government of Mount Athos is based on the seven "Typika" issued from the first recognition of organized monasticism on the Mountain to the earliest years of the last century.
	www.exparter.gr /en/agion_oros/mount_athos.htm (3771 words)

	Athos - Wikipedia
		Der Berg Athos liegt auf dem östlichen Finger der Halbinsel Chalkidiki in der Verwaltungsregion Zentralmakedonien und bildet mit 2.033 m Höhe die höchste Erhebung an der Südspitze der Chalkidiki-Halbinsel.
		Außerdem siedeln an den schwer zugänglichen Hängen des eigentlichen Berges Athos Mönche in Eremitagen (gr.
		Frauen ist der Zutritt zum Berg Athos untersagt, was wiederholt zu Kontroversen mit der Europäischen Union geführt hat.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athos (1122 words)

	Rhosgobel: Radagast's home
		As with Rem, Athos appeared perfectly healthy before his death, and we can find no explanation for why he died.
		Like all of our boys, Athos had turned into a rather plump adult, but other than that he was a fully active and happy little guy.
		Athos is the first of our baby mice to die; he was a little more than eight months old.
	rhosgobel.blogspot.com /2005/06/athos.html (167 words)

	Athos, Greece
		The Holy Mountain (Áyion Óros) of Athos, an autonomous region within Greece and for more than 1,000 years a center of Orthodox monasticism, is the most easterly of the three "fingers" of the Chalcidice peninsula.
		Visiting Athos is very different from a tourist area, and visitors must learn to fit in with the ways of this monastic republic.
		Visiting and staying in the Mt Athos monasteries is permitted only with a special pass issued by the capital of the monastic state at Karies, and only to men over 18 years-old.
	www.planetware.com /salonica/athos-gr-mac-athos.htm (720 words)

	Mount Athos: An Introduction
		In terms of geography, Mt. Athos, the eastern of the three ‘legs’ of Halkidiki, is not the ‘heart’ of the Macedonian terra firma; in terms of culture, however, the Athonian monastic community has been the spirit of Macedonia for more than 1,000 years.
		Located on the Athos peninsula of Chalkidiki, in the Greek part of Macedonia, it was officially established in 963, when a monk named Athanasios the Athonite built the Monastery of the Great Lavra.
		The administrative centre of Mount Athos is the village of Karyes.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Athos/General/intro.html (552 words)

	Greek Orthodox Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A thickly forested, mountainous ridge thirty miles long and two to five miles wide, Athos is the easternmost of the three promontories of the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece.
		Known as Agion Oros, or the 'Holy Mountain' in modern Greek, Athos is a semiautonomous republic of the Greek Orthodox church.
		According to historical sources however, Athos first became a refuge for Christian hermits and anchorites in the 6th and 7th centuries, and during the 8th and 9th centuries these hermits began to gather together into small monastic communities.
	sacredsites.com /europe/greece/mount_athos.html (984 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Athos
		While they are hiding, Athos describes bog bodies to Jakob: "Asleep for centuries" and uncovered intact, "they outlast their killers." Of himself, Jakob says: "[I] squirmed from the marshy ground like Tollund Man, Grauballe Man.".
		Fire on Mount Athos It was a bad March for the monks of Mount Athos, in northern Greece.
		Athos' dramatic 11th- and 12th-century fortress monasteries are scattered in the shadow of the Holy Mountain, giving...
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Athos_Mountain.html (742 words)

	The Athos Corporation: Your RCM 2 Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Athos Corporation is a management consulting firm specializing in enabling clients to apply Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to their physical assets.
		Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Athos is centrally located to serve clients throughout the United States and Canada.
		The Athos Corporation is a proud member of the worldwide Aladon Network, which comprises 28 companies that have helped clients to apply RCM 2 on more than 1,000 sites in 40 countries, in nearly every major area of human endeavor.
	www.athoscorp.com (291 words)

	Monte Athos - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Monte Athos es el nombre que recibe el área montañosa que conforma la península más oriental de las tres que se extienden hacia el Sur desde la península Calcídica, situada en Macedonia central, al norte de Grecia.
		En el Monte Athos sólo pueden vivir monjes y la población actual (2005) ronda los 1.400 habitantes.
		Actualmente, los monasterios de Monte Athos se han visto afectados por incendios forestales como los ocurridos en agosto de 1990 y en mayo de 2004 que destruyó una parte del monasterio de Helandari.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monte_Athos (530 words)

	Athos - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Athos
		Most of Mount Athos's 20 monasteries are built close to the coast and consist of a quadrangle of buildings surrounding a church.
		Since the departure of Athos for Blois, Porthos and D'Artagnan were seldom together.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Athos (225 words)

	Athos Barge Cruises - European river cruises on the canal du midi, south of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Athos Barge Cruises - European river cruises on the canal du midi, south of France
		The Athos is the largest floating hotel Barge in southern France, and Athos barge cruises offer unrivalled inland waterway cruise vacations, where your every wish is catered to by your resident and experienced crew.
		The Athos barge cruises along the Canal du Midi from the medieval walled city of Carcassonne to within 5 minutes of the Mediterranean shores.
	www.athoscruises.com (221 words)

	Athos
		On November 26, 2004, tugboats were assisting the 750-foot Cypriot-flagged oil tanker Athos I to maneuver to its terminal at the CITGO asphalt refining facility in West Deptford, New Jersey.
		A deep-draft anchor, an 8-by-4-foot concrete slab, and a 15-foot section of a centrifugal pump casing were found in the tanker's path to the refining terminal.
		Athos I oil spill that occurred in the Delaware River on Friday, Nov. 26, 2004.
	www.fws.gov /northeast/njfieldoffice/News_Stories/Athos/athos.htm (612 words)

	EXHIBITION TREASURES OF THE MOUNT ATHOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The exhibition of "Treasures from Mount Athos", the exceptionally ambitious project now being prepared by the Thessaloniki '97 Cultural Capital of Europe Organization, will be inaugurated in June 1997 and remain on view in the Museum of Byzantine Culture for six months.
		The community of the Fathers has not lost its religious and social traditions: the underlying intend of the submission of the novice to the elder is to permit the undisturbed transmission of the familiar rules and customs from one generation to the next.
		But the cultural heritage of Mount Athos is not limited to the marvels of its architecture and the artistic treasures of its churches, monasteries, sketes and cloisters: it extends to its unmatched and equally unique natural environment, the landscape which provides their physical setting.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/218 (678 words)

	Mount Athos - The Holy Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The severity of the Athonite terrain, the solitude of its oceanic flanks on all but one side—and that barricaded by a natural mountain rise—all came together in a landscape that was an ideal match for the 'desert' longed for by ascetics of any age.
		Basil I issued an imperial charter to the monks of Athos in AD 883, preventing his military from interfering with the solitaries stationed therein, and thus was born the monastic community which has continued to practise the ascetic life without interruption from then until now.
		A photo-diary of a pilgrimage to Mount Athos is on-line, which attempts to present a virtual experience of walking on the Holy Mountain.
	www.monachos.net /monasticism/athos (895 words)

	Athos
		He may place his Athos piece only after he moved his monks and before the terrain tiles are placed.
		The player then places his Athos piece on any one terrain tile on the board, which may now not be altered during the further game.
		In this variant the Athos piece may also be placed on a space which doesn't contain a terrain tile so far.
	www.gamecabinet.com /rules/Athos.html (1088 words)

	greece-2004.com - Agio Oros - Mount Athos - The Holy Mountain
		Mount Athos lies in the third, most special peninsula of Chalkidiki and is well known to Christians and non-Christians alike, as the Holy Mountain.
		In 972, the Byzantine emperor loannis Tsimiskis signed on a goat's hide the constitution of Mount Athos, according to which the various types of asceticism as well as certain religious observances and rituals were determined and defined.
		The Russians settled in the Panteleimonos Monastery and demanded land, cells and skites in Athos, under the supervision and guidance of the Russian consulate, which was trying to establish a sphere of influence in the shaky area of the Balkans.
	www.greece-2004.com /agio_oros (1417 words)

	MOUNT ATHOS, Northern Greece
		Mount Athos is simply one of the most beautiful places on earth, more like a fantasy than what we know of as reality.
		There is one bus that goes from the port of Daphne to the town of Karyes in the center of the peninsula.
		Basic Conditions for Admission to Mount Athos In accordance with a "Chryssobul" (edict) issued by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Monomahos, in 1060 A.D. which still remains valid, conditions for entering the territory of Mt. Athos are as follows:
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Macedonia/macedonia_discover_athos.html (610 words)

	oe1.ORF.at / Athos - Berg der Klöster und Einsiedler
		Athos ist ein Ort, an dem Männer versuchen, über den Schatten ihrer Begierden und Begrenzungen zu springen und den Himmel zu finden.
		Was dem Wanderer am Athos begegnet, passt nicht in die Alltagswelt hinein, in der Computer, Autos, Telefon und Fernsehen den Takt angeben und wo Kaufen und Verkaufen, der Streit ums Ansehen und Aussehen, der Kampf um den besten Platz in der ersten Reihe das Leben bestimmen.
		Der Athos zieht die unterschiedlichsten Menschen an - Gläubige und weniger Gläubige, doch was sie eint, ist die Wahrnehmung der Faszination, die vom Athos, von seinen Mönchen und Gottesdiensten ausgeht.
	oe1.orf.at /highlights/14373.html (1127 words)

	Athos on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ATHOS [Athos], Aktí, or Akte, easternmost of the three peninsulas of Khalkidhikí, c.130 sq mi (340 sq km), NE Greece, in Macedonia.
		Standoff on Mount Athos; Greek Monks Defy Patriarch in a Battle for the Soul of Orthodoxy
		Anchor was the culprit in oil spill: The Athos I tanker ruptured in the Delaware in 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/athos.asp (1098 words)

	French Canal Cruise: ATHOS - Canal Barge Cruises in France, Canal du Midi
		The Athos is 100 ft long and is the largest vessel able to pass through the Canal du Midi's beautiful and unique oval locks.
		You will be met by ATHOS Captain and Manager. In the comfort of ATHOS' private air-conditioned Chrysler minivans, you will be chauffeured to where the ATHOS awaits you at her moorings.
		Here's the ATHOS cruising on the picturesque Etang du Thau, leading onto the Canal du Midi, a waterway that was designed and built 300 years ago to link the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic on the west coast of France.
	www.bargesinfrance.com /athos.htm (4244 words)

	Xerxes' canal across the Athos
		A fleet of triremes lay at Elaeus in the Chersonese, and from this base men of the various nations of which the army was composed were sent over in shifts to Athos, where they were put to the work of cutting a canal under the lash.
		Bubares the son of Megabazus and Artachaees the son of Artaeus were the Persian officers in charge.
		People live on it, and where the high land ends on the landward side it forms a sort of isthmus with a neck of about a mile and a half wide, all of which is level, except for a few low hills, right across from the coast by Acanthus to the other side near Torone.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/hist05.htm (1557 words)

	Visiting Mount Athos
		Mount Athos is open only to men, and then there are several formalities which must be completed prior to making a pilgrimage or otherwise visiting the Holy Mountain.
		Pilgrims are admitted to Athos on a daily basis that is composed of two quotas: 120 Orthodox pilgrims and 10 non-Orthodox visitors may enter Athos each day, having first obtained proper documentation that outlines a permissable duration of stay (usually four days).
		If you are planning to enter Athos as part of the Orthodox daily quota, you will also need to include, in the same envelop, a copy of your certificate of baptism or chrismation.
	www.monachos.net /monasticism/athos/visiting_athos.shtml (935 words)

	Athos by Zbigniew Kosc
		The monks' republic on Mount Athos is regarded as the center of Eastern Orthodox spirituality.
		The first monastery on the holy mountain (Aghio Oros) was established by Constantinople just before the year 1000, and the small community of servants of God survived the second thousand years of Christianity better than the Orthodox metropolis on the Bosporus.
		In photographs of Zbigniew Kosc the other aspect of Athos is presented, that aspect which is of overriding importance to the monks and hermits: religion and spirituality.
	home.tiscali.nl /~kosc (688 words)

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