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	Gigantes
		In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were giants who sprang forth from the blood of the wounded Uranus after being castrated by Cronus.
		Athos, another one of the Gigantes, threw a mountain at Zeus, who knocked it to the ground near Macedonia.
		This mountain was the holy peak of Mount Athos.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alcyoneus.html (121 words)

	AEGEAN MELATHRON - AEGEAN STAR HOTELS
		Athos is covered with virgin forests of such extraordinary natural beauty, corroborating the opinion expressed by many people that this peninsula is the most charming of the three.
		Athos is approximately 50 kilometres long, 8 to 12 kilometres wide and its area covers approximately 350 square kilometers.
		Athos is the only place on earth entirely dedicated to the worship of God and the Holy Virgin Mary for over a thousand years.
	www.aegeanstar.com /aegean_melathron/en/athos.php (197 words)

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		Mount Athos is surrounded by the Strymonikos Bay in the east, Siggiticos Bay in the west and the Aegean Sea in the south.
		According to mythology Mt Athos used to be a block of stones thrown at Poseidon by Athos, the Giant.
		Mt Athos undertook the raids of the Latin and the Turks.
	hellas.teipir.gr /prefectures/english/AgioOros/Genika.htm (1338 words)

	M. ATHOS' HISTORY
		According to Greek mythology, in the struggle between the Giants and the Olympians, the leader of the former was Athos and of the latter, Poseidon.
		Athos cast a massive rock at Poseidon from Thrace, but it missed him and fell into the sea, forming the pyramid-shaped mountain bearing his name.
		The first one is Petros of Athos, whose arrival can be placed at the end of the 8th century, while the second is Euthymios the New who came to the Mountain in about 860.
	www.it.uom.gr /project/chalkidiki/athos_history.htm (938 words)

	Mount Athos \| History of Mount Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 942-944, by a special official document, the demarcation of the boundary between the monks of Athos and the monks of Ierissos - at the natural frontier of Zygos, as it is today - was settled.
		Now the Athonites were called upon to use all their ingenuity, as well as a great deal of money, to maintain the integrity of Athos, which groaned under the burden of vast taxation, the arbitrary conduct of state officials, the billeting of soldiers, and pirate and robber raids.
		Athos had been increasing in strength and prosperity since the beginning of the century, reaching the highest point in 1917.
	www.mountathos.gr /active~mode~en{a5e1747a-01bb-4ca0-8ee5-5cc83c8b617a}Print.html (2540 words)

	Oil Spill Pollutes Delaware River
		The Cyprus-flagged vessel, Athos 1, began listing about 8 degrees to the port (left) and spilling oil as it was being towed by two tugboats into the CITGO facility in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
		The Athos 1 was built in 1983, where 83 is for a high priest.
		However, Athos is also the name of a mountain island in the Aegean Sea at 24 N., for Satan's strategic attack on Israel, and 40 E., for maximum divine discipline.
	www.biblenews1.com /history4/20041127.htm (813 words)

	Mount Athos
		One of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos
		Mount Athos as a monastic community was formally founded in 963, when the monk Athanasios established the monastery of Great Lavra, still the largest and most prominent of the 20 monasteries.
		Spiritually, Mount Athos is under the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is therefore in communion with all the monasteries on Mount Athos and with the Orthodox Church based in various countries.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Regions/MountAthos.html (1464 words)

	Athos * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Mount Athos; a mountain in the district of Khalkidike (Chalcidice) in northern Greece.
		Khalkidike has three finger-like peninsulas jutting into the Aegean Sea and Mount Athos is on the southern-most tip of the eastern peninsula.
		Mount Athos rises to a height of 6,670 feet (2,033 meters).
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Athos_1.html (293 words)

	Hellenic Forums Omogenia - YASOU - Hellenism: Religious Renewal on Mount Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The "under-secretary of state" of Athos, Kyriakos, a monastic deacon from the second generation of Greek guest workers in Germany, maintains a liaison to all of them, including French, Italians and Germans, fl Africans and Americans of African descent, the first Austrian in Athos, and Brother Alexander.
		Athos was settled early, and it gained a special status in the Eastern Roman Empire (that is, Byzantium) with the founding of the first documented monastery after 963.
		Athos retained the rights of internal self-administration, while everything else was taken over by the foreign ministry in Athens.
	www.omogenia.com /forums/showflat.php?Number=3507&page= (1831 words)

	Mount Athos - History
		During the conflict between the Gods and the Giants, Athos threw a huge rock against Poseidon (the God), but the rock slipped through his fingers and fell to the sea creating a huge block of land which is now Mount Athos.
		Since then, Mount Athos is considered as "The Garden of the Virgin Mary".
		In the 5th century AD, the first monks came to Mount Athos, who disappointed from the boredom of everyday communal life, found this beautiful and uninhabited place ideal for worship their God.
	www.inathos.gr /athos/en/AthosHistory.html (247 words)

	Mount Athos, Agion Oros - Chalkidiki (Halkidiki)
		The Holy Mount is a self-governed part of the Greek state, subject to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its political aspect and to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as regards its religious aspect.
		The administrative centre of Mount Athos is the village of Karyes.
		It is also worth noting that time on Mount Athos runs according to the Julian calendar, abandoned by most of Western Europe in favour of the present-day Gregorian calendar during the sixteenth century.
	www.chalkidiki.com /athos (564 words)

	WCCC 2004 - Links
		Mount Holomodas lies in the centre of the prefecture and Mount Athos in the east.
		Athos has become well known all over the world both as a distant place and a name that has remained unchanged since the prehistoric period.
		According to the Greek mythology, Mount Athos was named after the Giant Athos, who lifted and threw a whole mountain, as if it were a small stone, against the gods.
	www.sitesled.com /members/wccc/links.html (1137 words)

	Athos - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are some 20 Greek Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, which comprise a semiautonomous republic.
		Most of Mount Athos's 20 monasteries are built close to the coast and consist of a quadrangle of buildings surrounding a church.
		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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athos, in Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes
		New Athos, a mountain and monastery in Abkhazia
		Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athos (153 words)

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		Athos’ monastic community founded in 963 AD (by a monk named Athanasios the Athonite), with the establishment of the Great Lavra monastery (still the most prominent and largest).
		The monasteries of Athos were protected by the Byzantine Emperors until their 15th century collapse and the occupation of Islamic Ottoman Empire.
		It is my theory that the Wraiths did not attack Athos because some of the SGA team went into the ancestors’ city, but because Sheppard had activated Teyla’s necklace, which he had found in the cave.
	isis_athena1690.tripod.com /A.html (8701 words)

	ATHOS COAST
		Mount Athos is the most easterly prong of the Chalkidiki peninsula.
		According to mythology, the mountain originated as a rock that the giant Athos hurled at Poseidon.
		Accommodation is free in the Monasteries of Mount Athos.
	www.athoscoast.gr /mountathos.asp (291 words)

	Athos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The narrow, northern base of the peninsula was once cut by canal dug by the Persians during Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (see Persian Wars).
		At the southern tip of the peninsula is the theocratic community of the monks of Mount Athos, also called Hagion Oros or Ayion Oros [Gr.,=Holy Mt.], which rises to c.6,670 ft (2,030 m).
		Karyai, the chief town of Athos, is the seat of the Holy Community, a committee made up of one representative from each monastery, which governs the monks of Mount Athos.
	www.bartleby.com /65/at/Athos.html (255 words)

	BikeAbout Trip Log: March 7-8, 1998
		The Athos peninsula, or Mount Athos (Agios Oros), which in Greek means Holy Mountain, is an exclusively monastic community within the Greek mainland.
		At most Mount Athos monasteries, the monks eat only twice a day and most of their time away from work and meals is spent in prayer.
		Unfortunately, it was forbidden to photograph most of the exhibits, but we did manage a snapshot of a finely crafted bell that used to call the monks to prayer at one of the monasteries.
	www.bikeabout.org /journal/notes_91.htm (1682 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 89 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was born in the Asiatic portion of the now reduced Byzantine empire, and was educated at the court of Constantinople, apparently during the reign of Andronicus Palaeologusthe elder.
		It was apparently while at Thessalonica, that his controversy began with Barlaam, a Calabrian monk, who having visited Constantinople soon after the accession of the emperor Andronicus Palaeolo-gus the younger in a.
		To this supercilious humour the wild fanaticism of the moiiks of Athos presented an admirable subject.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2423.html (555 words)

	Expeditions
		We were spending some time in Athos, working on the text and paintings from Queen Maud Land for a book about the expedition.
		At the foot of Mount Athos, for the past thousand years, Greek orthodox monks have dedicated their lives to work and prayer.
		Among historians and scholars all over the world, the monastic community on the peninsula in the north of the Agean Sea is considered to be one of the most well preserved and living cultural treasures of our time.
	www.vebjorn-sand.com /expeditions.html (566 words)

	Mythology and History of Chalkidiki (Halkidiki)
		The Athos peninsula was named after the giant Athos, who during the famous battle, threw a mountain at the gods, but failed to find his target.
		The 150- castles, churches, bridges and other structures that have been documented, while Mount Athos possesses a wealth of information on Byzantium, evidence its position within the Byzantine Empire.
		The Byzantine emperors made many grants of land to the monasteries and farming of cattle, grain and vines was developed under the protection of the "metochia", dependencies of the monasteries.
	www.chalkidiki.com /mythology_history.html (1026 words)

	GREEKHOTEL - CHALKIDIKI & MOUNT ATHOS - MACEDONIA - GREECE
		According to the myth, the goddess Athena threw the Kassandra promontory at the Giant Enceladus.
		Mount Athos, the third promontory of Chalkidiki, was formed when the Giant Athos tossed an enormous boulder at the gods.
		The lots of similar stories about the Battle of Giants fascinated later poets and artists, and as a result the conflict is one of the most common scenes depicted on ancient pottery and sculpture.
	www.greekislands.com /chalkidiki/history.htm (980 words)

	WCCC 2004 - History of Halkidiki
		According to the mythology, Halkidiki was the birthplace of the Giants and it became a battlefield, when they tried to expel the Gods from Mount Olympus.
		It is said that the goddess Athena threw the Kassandra promontory at the Giant Egelados and Mount Athos, the third promontory of Halkidiki, was formed when the Giant Athos tossed an enormous boulder at the gods.
		After the 9th century, the largest part of the peninsula became the possession of the monasteries of Athos.
	www.sitesled.com /members/wccc/tourist_info/history.html (843 words)

	Athor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Athor
		The temple had become buried by sands from sandstorms, but was excavated in 1860.
		In ancient Egyptian mythology, a sky goddess; wife or mother of the sky god Horus; goddess of dance, music, and love, (equivalent to Greek Aphrodite); also, goddess of desert cemeteries.
		She may appear as the great celestial cow, creator of the world; or as a human with cow's horns and ears.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Athor (316 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Athos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A mountain and peninsula in Greece containing an ancient monastic state: Mount Athos.
		A fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/at/Athos (112 words)

	[MGSA-L] athios fire - follow up report
		During the conflict between the mythical gods and the giants, Athos threw a huge rock at the god of the sea, Poseidon, but the rock slipped through his fingers and fell to the sea creating a huge block of land which is now Mount Athos.
		The Virgin Mary, admiring the wild beauty of the place, asked God to give her the mountain as a present, and the voice of the Lord was heard saying: ''Let this place be your lot, your garden and your paradise, as well as a salvation, a haven for those who seek salvation''.
		Fire at monastery on Mount Athos extinguished A fire breaking out at Hilandari monastery on Mount Athos at midnight on Wednesday was extinguished by firemen on Thursday and, according to initial assessments, considerable damage has been caused to the monastery.
	maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2004-March/003042.html (582 words)

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		In Greek mythology Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia the Earth.
		His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus, likewise from caelus the Latin word for sky.
		In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in Theogony, Uranus came every single night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him.
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	zingmagazine13 -- Reviews
		Mythology is a label often used to define Ellinikotita.
		Kate Barba, a young artist who was born and stayed in Athens, is also influenced by mythology, but in a more story telling and technological way.
		In one particular image, to be continued (ballooning over mount athos), the artist cuts out the face of a woman and pastes it onto a hot air balloon floating near Mount Athos, a religious community on a northeastern peninsula of Greece in the Aegean Sea where women are barred.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing13/review/06.html (1286 words)

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		In Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes Gigantes, see Athos (mythology) Athos (mythology).
		A fictional planet in the novel "Ethan of Athos Ethan of Athos" by Lois McMaster Bujold Lois McMaster Bujold msg:disambig
	www.biodatabase.de /Athos (124 words)

	Athos (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Athos, one of the Gigantes, threw a mountain at Zeus, who knocked it to the ground near Macedonia.
		This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub.
		This page was last modified 21:37, 29 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athos_(mythology) (71 words)

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